The polio vaccine protects your baby against polio, a disease that has led to paralysis in millions of children worldwide. The polio vaccine used in the U.S. contains three types of inactivated ...

The new vaccines, then, will be less expensive to produce than IPVs, helping to improve fair and equal access to vaccination—ensuring that once polio is eradicated, it will stay eradicated.

Polio cases were once common in the United States and around the world. During one of the most severe outbreaks in 1952, the virus infected 58,000 people in the US, paralyzed more than 21,000 and ...

Polio vaccines have helped eradicate the wild form of the disease in many regions of the world, including the Americas, Europe, Southeast Asia and Africa, according to WHO.

This week marks 70 years since the first polio vaccine was licensed on April 12, 1955, which kicked off mass vaccination campaigns that eventually helped eradicate the illness in the U.S. and many ...

Between 1951 and 1954, an average of 16,000 paralytic polio cases and 1,800 deaths from polio were reported every year, according to the CDC. In 1955, the first polio vaccine became widely available.

The first polio vaccine was approved for use in 1955, and the disease was eliminated from the Americas by 1994. Today, polio regularly circulates in just two countries, but outbreaks crop up where ...

The new vaccines, then, will be less expensive to produce than IPVs, helping to improve fair and equal access to vaccination – ensuring that once polio is eradicated, it will stay eradicated.