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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.
International Travel and Health. Chapter 6 - Vaccine-preventable diseases and vaccines (2019 update). World Health Organization. United Nations (2020). Retrieved on 3 December 2020. Countries with risk of yellow fever transmission and countries requiring yellow fever vaccination (July 2019). World Health Organization. United Nations (4 July 2019).
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.
Dorothy Millicent Horstmann (July 2, 1911 – January 11, 2001) was an American epidemiologist, virologist, and pediatrician whose research on the spread of poliovirus in the human bloodstream helped set the stage for the development of the polio vaccine.
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Studying polio vaccines. Polio vaccination is considered one of the greatest achievements in global public health. it was once a disease that paralyzed and killed thousands of Americans during ...
Vector version of w:Image:Polio worldwide 2005.JPG, adapted for accuracy. Data taken from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, Wild Poliovirus 2000–2007. Base map is Image:BlankMap-World6, compact.svg by Lokal Profil (talk · contribs), based on Image:BlankMap-World6.svg by Canuckguy et al. Author: Fvasconcellos 23:25, 7 January 2008 (UTC ...
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