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    Polio vaccines are vaccines used to prevent poliomyelitis (polio). Two types are used: an inactivated poliovirus given by injection (IPV) and a weakened...
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    prevented by the polio vaccine, with multiple doses required for lifelong protection. There are two broad types of polio vaccine; an injected vaccine using inactivated...
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    There are two kinds of polio vaccine—oral polio vaccine (OPV), which uses weakened poliovirus, and inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), which is injected...
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  • The oral polio vaccine (OPV) AIDS hypothesis is a now-discredited hypothesis that the AIDS pandemic originated from live polio vaccines prepared in chimpanzee...
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    Jonas Salk (category Polio)
    virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. He was born in New York City and attended the City College of New York...
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    of polio Healthcare in India Vaccination Polio Vaccine Pulse vaccination strategy Polio v/s Polio victims, documentary about the campaign "Polio Global...
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    The announcement of the polio vaccine's safety and effectiveness was on April 12, 1955, by Thomas Francis, Jr., of the University of Michigan, the monitor...
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    vaccines and toxoid vaccines. Types include: Viral: Injected polio vaccine (Salk vaccine) Hepatitis A vaccine Rabies vaccine Most influenza vaccines Tick-borne...
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    diseases such as polio, measles, and tetanus from much of the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that licensed vaccines are currently available...
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    Albert Sabin (category Polio)
    Polish-American medical researcher, best known for developing the oral polio vaccine, which has played a key role in nearly eradicating the disease. In 1969–72...
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    revolutionizing medical philanthropy. Although the development of two polio vaccines has eliminated wild poliomyelitis in all but two countries (Afghanistan...
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  • countries, where polio vaccine is given separately. By 2013, pentavalent vaccines accounted for 100% of the DTP-containing vaccines procured by UNICEF...
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    Hilary Koprowski (category Polio)
    the United States who demonstrated the world's first effective live polio vaccine. He authored or co-authored over 875 scientific papers and co-edited...
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    The DPT vaccine or DTP vaccine is a class of combination vaccines against three infectious diseases in humans: diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)...
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  • attenuated (live-virus) vaccine. The only human vaccine to have caused any significant number of infections is the oral polio vaccine (OPV), which takes advantage...
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  • acellular pertussis adsorbed, hepatitis B (recombinant) and inactivated polio vaccine or DTaP-IPV-Hep B. It protects against the infectious diseases diphtheria...
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  • injectable polio vaccine intended to treat four million children and bring Pakistan closer to its goal of eradication by 2016. While the new vaccine is pricier...
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  • (MMRV) vaccine Polio vaccine Rotavirus vaccine Rubella vaccine Smallpox vaccine Varicella vaccine Yellow fever vaccine Zoster/shingles vaccine Enterotoxigenic...
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  • international vaccine care standards were being designed in the 1970s, the manuals typically generalized from the needs of care for the oral polio vaccine since...
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  • John Franklin Enders (category Polio)
    large quantities of poliovirus, and then developed a polio vaccine in 1952. Upon the 1954 polio vaccine field trial, whose success Salk announced on the radio...
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  • (with the sole exception of the oral polio vaccine, which is no longer in use as a result). In traditional vaccines, the virus is attenuated (weakened)...
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  • AIDS hypothesis, Edward Hooper proposed that early batches of the oral polio vaccine (OPV) grown in cultures of chimpanzee kidney cells, infected with a...
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  • to inactivate the polio virus in the Salk vaccine, by means of formaldehyde, did not reliably kill SV40. The contaminated vaccine continued to be distributed...
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    SV40 (category Polio)
    eukaryotic DNA replication and transcription. Following contamination of polio vaccine batches in the 1950s and 1960s, SV40 came under suspicion as a possible...
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  • 2008. Retrieved April 28, 2008. "Remembering Polio: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Salk Polio Vaccine". University of Pittsburgh. Archived from...
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    national polio vaccination program would be postponed until further notice. Vaccine manufacturers withheld 3.9 million doses of polio vaccine as a result...
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    and pertussis vaccines, and still others include additional vaccines such as Hib vaccine, hepatitis B vaccine, or inactivated polio vaccine. The World Health...
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    March of Dimes (category Polio)
    Infantile Paralysis, to combat polio. The name "March of Dimes" was coined by Eddie Cantor. After funding Jonas Salk's polio vaccine, the organization expanded...
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  • examples of vaccines with the aforementioned route of admission include the oral polio vaccine and the nasal spray influenza vaccine. These vaccines can stimulate...
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  • entry at all. This is justified by research that shows that the Pfizer vaccine effect lasts for six months or so. "Visa and passport requirements". October...
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