University of Leeds researchers have taken a major step towards producing a more affordable and lower-risk polio vaccine ...

The advent of the polio vaccine decreased cases from a high in 1952 of about 20,000 cases of paralytic poliomyelitis, with 3,145 deaths, to 0 cases of wild polio since 1979. Why don’t we keep ...

Currently, IPV is relatively expensive to produce because it requires high levels of bio-containment to minimise the risk of leaks of live poliovirus, which could result in outbreaks. VLPs are ...

Researchers with grants from the NIH to study why some people have questions or fears about vaccines and how to help those ...

The CDC recommends four doses of the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), which is 99% effective, before the age of 6. “If you drop immunization rates low enough in various areas, polio could come ...