Polio vaccine, given multiple times, almost always protects a child for life The development of effective vaccines to prevent paralytic polio was one of the major medical breakthroughs of the 20th century There are six different vaccines to stop polio transmission Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious viral disease that largely affects children under 5 years of age Contaminated water or food) and multiplies in the intestine, from where it can invade the nervous system and cause paralysis. Who fact sheet on poliomyelitis, a highly infectious disease caused by a virus
The fact sheet includes key facts, global caseload, global eradication initiative, progress, who response. Salk’s ipv was tested and proved highly efficacious against paralytic poliomyelitis in a large clinical trial conducted in us schoolchildren in 1954, which was rapidly followed by licensure of the product and implementation of mass. Inactivated polio vaccine (ipv) was developed in 1955 by dr jonas salk Also called the salk vaccine ipv consists of inactivated (killed) poliovirus strains of all three poliovirus types Ipv is given by intramuscular or intradermal injection and needs to be administered by a trained health worker. Polio vaccine standardization written standards the who guidelines for the safe production and quality control of inactivated poliomyelitis vaccine manufactured from wild polioviruses were developed in 2003 and revised in 2018.
Overview this position paper on polio vaccines replaces the 2016 who position paper, and summarizes recent developments in the field.
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