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Poliomyelitis (pōlee ō mī ə lītiss), often called polio or infantile paralysis, is an acute, viral, infectious disease spread from person to person, primarily via the fecal-oral route.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Giving just one-fifth the usual dose of the polio vaccine may protect babies against the virus nearly as well as a full dose, as long as it is injected just beneath the skin, doctors reported on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The findings could bring down the cost of immunization, an important consideration in developing countries, some of which have had trouble containing the paralytic disease.A needle-free jet injector made by Bioject Medical Technologies was used to deliver the vaccine beneath the skin at ages 2, 4 and 6 months. Blood tests showed more than 95 percent of the infants mounted an effective immune response against polio.Babies who got a lower dose had fewer antibodies against polio but the researchers said that should not be a problem."It's still way over what would still be considered protective levels," study author Dr. Roland Sutter of the World Health Organization said in a telephone interview.The injectable vaccine costs about $3 per dose. The ora...
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Low-Dose Polio Vaccine Effective, Study SaysFriday, June 25, 2010PrintGiving just one-fifth the usual dose of the polio vaccine may protect babies against the virus ...
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Nigerian Islamic State Rejects Polio VaccineSunday, February 22, 2004E-Mail Print Share:KADUNA, Nigeria — A northern Islamic state in Nigeria ( search ) that is at...
The world is not on track to wipe out polio by the end of 2012, a group of independent health experts warned Wednesday.Since 1998, the World Health Organization and ...
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One woman has changed medicine forever, and yet most people don't even know her name. Dr. Manny talks to Rebecca Skloot, author of "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," about how this unsung hero helped to develop the polio vaccine, in-vitro fertilization, gene mapping and many of the medications we use every day
Health officials say there has not been a case of polio in India for nine months, the longest the country has ever been polio free.India's health ministry says the c...
International aid groups said Thursday they're launching a mass polio immunization campaign in three Central African nations in response to a polio outbreak suspecte...
A rare and unusually fatal outbreak of polio in Republic of Congo has caused more than 200 deaths in the Central African nation, a UNICEF spokesman said Friday.The d...
Tiny Shamsa is a victim of the war against Islamist militants in northwest Pakistan, but it wasn't bullets or bombs that paralyzed her right leg. The 18-month-old co...
When the clocks strike midnight in New Delhi on January 12, India will mark the first year in history it has recorded no new cases of polio .It's a huge milestone fo...
The nation's largest group of pediatricians announced new guidelines today regarding the use of the whooping cough booster and polio vaccines .Among the changes, adu...
GENEVA (AP) — For years, the world has been on the brink of wiping out polio , the deadly disease that can paralyze and kill children.At the World Health Organizatio...
For years, the world has been on the brink of wiping out polio, the deadly disease that can paralyze and kill children.At the World Health Organization's annual meet...
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan (AP) — Health officials in Tajikistan will start a nationwide polio vaccination campaign Saturday in response to the first outbreak of the disea...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has applauded anti-polio efforts in Nigeria, where the West African nation has seen only three new wild polio c...
Health officials are looking into the cases of four people who became paralyzed in northwestern Haiti while recovering from cholera.The experts are trying to determi...
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