Who Is Robin Cavendish?
Robin Cavendish was a respirator dependent polio survivor whose life story is told in the new movie Breathe.
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polio vaccines
Myths About Polio and Acute Flaccid Paralysis
Acute flaccid paralysis can be caused by the polio virus, but non-polio acute flaccid paralysis becomes a more important cause once polio is eliminated in a region.
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cVDPV
Circulating vaccine-derived polio virus or cVDPV are outbreaks of polio that are actually caused by the polio vaccine.
Jonas Salk
Dr. Jonas Salk developed the first polio vaccine in 1955, an inactivated vaccine that we still use today.
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