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 ...

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.

The polio vaccines prevented 29 million cases of paralytic polio between 1960 and 2021, compared with a counterfactual world with no vaccines, according to researchers’ estimates.

Vaccine release sparks hope among parents A game changer arrived in the spring of 1955, and eager parents started lining up their kids to receive a dose of a new polio vaccine, a much-anticipated ...

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 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 ...