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  1. Polio vaccine. Polio vaccines are vaccines used to prevent poliomyelitis (polio). [2] [3] Two types are used: an inactivated poliovirus given by injection (IPV) and a weakened poliovirus given by mouth (OPV). [2] The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends all children be fully vaccinated against polio. [2]

    • Jonas Salk

      Jonas Edward Salk (/ s ɔː l k /; born Jonas Salk; October...

    • Polio

      There are two broad types of polio vaccine; an injected...

    • Children with polio. Children and a teacher with polio participate in a class at Saint Marys Hospital.
    • 1948-1955. Before a polio vaccine became available, several polio epidemics had occurred between 1948 and 1955. Many people avoided crowds and public gatherings, such as fairs, sports games and swimming pools, during this time due to concern about getting polio.
    • Iron lung. A man with polio in an iron lung talks with former President Dwight Eisenhower at Saint Marys Hospital.
    • 1952-1955. Dr. Jonas E. Salk and colleagues research and develop a polio vaccine.
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  3. May 9, 2024 · polio vaccine, preparation of poliovirus given to prevent polio, an infectious disease of the nervous system. The first polio vaccine to be widely used in humans, known as inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) or Salk vaccine, was developed in the early 1950s by American physician Jonas Salk.

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  4. Apr 3, 2024 · polio, acute viral infectious disease of the nervous system that usually begins with general symptoms such as fever, headache, nausea, fatigue, and muscle pains and spasms and is sometimes followed by a more serious and permanent paralysis of muscles in one or more limbs, the throat, or the chest.

  5. Not long afterwards, in the early 1950s, the first successful vaccine was created by US physician Jonas Salk. Salk tested his experimental killed-virus vaccine on himself and his family in 1953, and a year later on 1.6 million children in Canada, Finland and the USA. The results were announced on 12 April 1955, and Salk’s inactivated polio ...

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