Polio vaccine--the latest CDC recommendationsReports on the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) recommended dosage for oral polio vaccine (OPV) and inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) given ...
Polio, acute viral infectious disease of the nervous system that has no known cure but can be prevented by a vaccine. Since the 1960s, thanks to widespread use of polio vaccines, polio has been eliminated from most of the world. Learn about the cause, sy
According to the CDC's most recent childhood vaccination data, about 93% of 2-year-olds in the U.S. had received at least three doses of polio vaccine. Meanwhile, adults who are not vaccinated would receive a three-dose immunization, and those who are vaccinated but at high risk can r...
Aaron Siri, an attorney to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., petitioned the FDA to "withdraw or suspend" its approval of a polio vaccine. Dec 13, 2024 Tech leaders donate to Trump inaugural fund As President-elect Donald Trump and his team prepare for day one of the new administration, CBS News ...
Parents and children wait outside the Riverside Public School in Elmira, N.Y., on July 1, 1953, to get the polio vaccine, due to the rise in infantile paralysis in Chemung and Steuben Counties. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the polio virus was detected in wastewater...
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especially in very young children and infants. Before the introduction of the vaccine in the United States, rotavirus infection was a very common cause for hospital admission. Current studies indicate that the virus has resulted in up to 95% fewer admissions due to rotavirus infection to hospitals...
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vaccine; (v) genetic variants of SARS-CoV-2 appeared rapidly as the pandemic spread, while mutants of the flu virus were not recognized until many years later; and (vi) the 1918 influenza affected less than half of the countries and the most vulnerable groups were healthy adults between the...
With summer travel in full swing, experts said both adults and children should have their routine immunizations up to date and check whether they need additional vaccines for their destination. “Vaccine hesitancy is another effect of the pandemic,” said Dr. Valérie Lamarre, an ...