The first polio vaccines were licensed in the 1950s and ’60s by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin.
Together, they have helped us get to the point where we are close to eradicating polio.
We are not quite there yet though.
Today, in the United States, after thirty years of using the live, oral polio vaccine, we are once again using polio shots because of the risk of VAPP.
Infants get their first doses at two and four months and a third dose in the primary series between six and 18 months. A booster dose is give between four to six years.
More on Polio Vaccines
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- The Myth That Polio Only Went Away Because They Changed the Way It Was Diagnosed
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- Ask the Experts about Polio Vaccines
- CDC – Polio Vaccination: What Everyone Should Know
- CDC – Polio VIS
- Polio ACIP Vaccine Recommendations
- CDC – Polio Pinkbook
- FDA – IPOL (package insert)
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- FDA – Pediarix (package insert)
- FDA – Kinrix (package insert)
- FDA – Quadracel (package insert)
- A Look at Each Vaccine : Polio
- History of the Polio Vaccines
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- Inactivated Polio Vaccine
- Oral Polio Vaccine Cessation
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