Polio Vaccines
The first polio vaccines were licensed in the 1950s and ’60s by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin and have helped us get close to eradicating polio.
VAPP
VAPP
VAPP or vaccine-associated paralytic polio are cases of polio that are actually caused by the oral polio vaccine.
Attenuated Vaccines
An attenuated vaccine is one that has been weakened, so that it can’t make you sick, but will still trigger the creation of antibodies and an immune reaction.
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Albert Sabin
In 1961, Sabin’s live, attenuated polio vaccine replaced Jonas Salk’s inactivated polio vaccine that had been in use since 1955.