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  2. What to know about polio vaccines, in 4 charts

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    Unvaccinated children are “at potential risk of exposure and the potential for paralytic polio,” he continued. Here’s a look at the disease’s trend over the past 100 years or so ...

  3. Childhood immunizations in the United States - Wikipedia

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    As with all medications, vaccines are continually monitored for safety, and like any medication, vaccines can cause side effects. The side effects of vaccination are typically minor and go away within a few days. There is a risk that the child could have a severe allergic reaction, but these reactions are rare.

  4. Why We Need to Remember the Physical Effects of Polio

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  5. Polio is a deadly disease with a vaccine that RFK Jr.’s ...

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    The risks and possible side effects of the polio vaccine are comparable to those of other vaccines, the CDC says, such as pain, soreness, swelling, and/or redness at the injection site. Fainting ...

  6. Polio vaccine - Wikipedia

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    Doses of oral polio vaccine are added to sugar cubes for use in a 1967 vaccination campaign in Bonn, West Germany. During the race to develop an oral polio vaccine, several large-scale human trials were undertaken. By 1958, the National Institutes of Health had determined that OPV produced using the Sabin strains was the safest. [43]

  7. Vaccine adverse event - Wikipedia

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    According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while "any vaccine can cause side effects", [11] most side effects are minor, primarily including sore arms or a mild fever. [11] Unlike most medical interventions vaccines are given to healthy people, where the risk of side effects is not as easily outweighed by the benefit of ...

  8. What to know about polio vaccines and symptoms

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    As of 2019, nearly 93% of U.S. children had received three or more doses of the polio vaccine by age 2, according to the CDC. Vaccination rates in Rockland County and Orange County in New York are ...

  9. Polio - Wikipedia

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    Poliomyelitis (/ ˌ p oʊ l i oʊ ˌ m aɪ ə ˈ l aɪ t ɪ s / POH-lee-oh-MY-ə-LY-tiss), commonly shortened to polio, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus. [1] Approximately 75% of cases are asymptomatic; [5] mild symptoms which can occur include sore throat and fever; in a proportion of cases more severe symptoms develop such as headache, neck stiffness, and paresthesia.