On February 23, 1954, the world’s first-ever polio vaccine was administered in Pittsburgh, United States. This day is also ...

Polio is a dangerous disease that’s been largely eliminated in the United States, thanks to the polio vaccine (aka the inactivated polio vaccine, or IPV). To stay safe and maintain immunity in your ...

There has also been high uptake of a highly effective vaccine that uses an inactivated (“killed”) virus; approximately 93 percent of U.S. children nationally are vaccinated against polio by ...

Vaccinations prevent 4–5 million deaths annually, according to WHO. Immunization coverage for diseases like measles and ...

While 420,000 U.S. children were given Salk’s inactivated polio vaccine, 200,000 were inoculated with salt water. The 16 children who died were all in the placebo group, and 34 were paralyzed ...

Background Because inactivated trivalent influenza vaccines (TIVs) contain 1 influenza B strain, whereas 2 lineages may co-circulate, B lineage mismatch is frequent. We assessed an inactivated ...

With a measles outbreak growing in West Texas, and cases popping up across the country, experts say vaccination is your best ...

A recent randomized controlled implementation study in Nigeria 1 evaluated the impact on coverage, costs, and acceptability of intradermal fractional inactivated poliovirus vaccine (fIPV ...

“They are, however, planning to switch to Trivalent Inactivated Influenza Vaccines (TIV) come September this year,” Dzulkefly told The Star. The TIV protects against three different strains of ...

Vaccine refrigeration — which can be expensive and logistically challenging, but still needed — could become unnecessary, ...

“So long as polio is still present in the world, the benefits of protecting children against paralysis far exceed any risks of this highly effective vaccine, particularly for the inactivated ...

[3] Until now, there is no WHO-approved hantavirus vaccine available. However, at least three different inactivated vaccines, based on purified suckling-mouse brains, golden hamster kidney cells ...