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poliovirus vaccine |
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poliovirus vaccine [¦pō·lē·ō′vī·rəs vak′sēn] (immunology) A vaccine prepared from one or all three types of polioviruses in a live or attenuated state. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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He describes the wartime governmental campaigns to protect children against the ravages of typhoid fever, diphtheria, and yellow fever and explains the legendary rivalry between Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin and their respective polio vaccines. Since 2000, reported annual routine vaccination coverage with >3 doses of oral polio vaccine (OPV) has been very low in CAR (<50%); National Immunization Days have been conducted every year since 1996, except in 2002 (1). As Dr Myron Wegman, Dean of the University of Michigan School of Public Health, noted at a dedication to Francis in 1970, "In an age of house-sized computers, IBM punch cards, propeller planes, and rotary telephones, the field trial that Thomas Francis proposed to test the safety and effectiveness of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine could have been seen as madness. |
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