Do you need a polio booster shot? Everything you need to know about polio vaccines
Adults who doubt they have been fully vaccinated against polio should talk to their doctors about getting additional shots, experts say.
Aug 30, 2022
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Complex Mixtures: News and Research on Poliovirus Vaccine, Inactivated
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Polio in US, UK and Israel reveals rare risk of oral vaccine
For years, global health officials have used billions of drops of an oral vaccine in a remarkably effective campaign aimed at wiping out polio in its last remaining strongholds—typically, poor, politically unstable corners ...
Aug 21, 2022
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Polio detected in NYC's sewage, suggesting virus circulating
The virus that causes polio has been found in New York City's wastewater in another sign that the disease, which hadn't been seen in the U.S. in a decade, is quietly spreading among unvaccinated people, health officials said ...
Aug 12, 2022
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London kids to be offered polio shot after more virus found
Children ages 1-9 in London were made eligible for booster doses of a polio vaccine Wednesday after British health authorities reported finding evidence the virus has spread in multiple areas of the city but found no cases ...
Aug 10, 2022
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Polio virus found in more NY wastewater after recent case
The polio virus was detected in more wastewater samples north of New York City, this time in a county adjacent to where an unvaccinated adult recently contracted the life-threatening disease.
Aug 4, 2022
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What the polio case in New York tells us about the end of polio
No one studying polio knew more than Albert Sabin, the Polish-American scientist whose vaccine against the crippling disease has been used worldwide since 1959. Sabin's oral vaccine provides lifelong immunity. It has one ...
Aug 1, 2022
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Peter Salk, the son of polio vaccine's developer, says the newest US polio case sounds a warning
After a man in Rockland County, New York, became the first patient to contract polio in the United States in nearly a decade, experts such as Dr. Peter Salk—whose late father, Jonas, developed a vaccine for the disease—said ...
Jul 25, 2022
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New York reports 1st US polio case in nearly a decade
An unvaccinated young adult from New York recently contracted polio, the first U.S. case in nearly a decade, health officials said Thursday.
Jul 21, 2022
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Microparticles could be used to deliver 'self-boosting' vaccines
Most vaccines, from measles to COVID-19, require a series of multiple shots before the recipient is considered fully vaccinated. To make that easier to achieve, MIT researchers have developed microparticles that can be tuned ...
Jul 13, 2022
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