Vaccines For Polio Virus
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Vaccines for polio virus. Opv developed by albert sabin consists of attenuated weakened. Which is a dead vaccine. Switched to the inactivated. In particular oral polio vaccine has been documented to induce protection against a number of viral and bacterial infections.
Children should get four doses total with one dose at each of the. The world health organization who recommends all children be fully vaccinated against polio. It is not a live virus and it cannot cause polio. Polio once caused widespread panic.
The two vaccines have eliminated polio from most of the world and reduced the number of cases reported each year. It is given by shot in the leg or arm depending on the patient s age. Although the live virus vaccine was highly effective at protecting against polio a few cases of polio per year were caused by the oral vaccine itself. The oral polio vaccine opv for instance contains an attenuated or weakened version of the polio virus.
It activates a human immune response without making the person fully sick. What are the types of polio vaccine. Polio can be prevented with vaccine. How the oral polio vaccine can cause polio one of the vaccines used to prevent polio has.
In rare cases the live virus in oral polio vaccine can mutate into a form capable of sparking new outbreaks. In 2000 the u s. Oral polio vaccine opv is used in other countries. Polio vaccines are vaccines used to prevent poliomyelitis polio.
Inactivated polio vaccine ipv is the only polio vaccine that has been given in the united states since 2000. All the current vaccine derived polio cases have been sparked by a type 2 virus contained in the vaccine. Two types are used. Following introduction of vaccines specifically trivalent inactivated poliovirus vaccine ipv in 1955 and trivalent oral poliovirus vaccine opv in 1963 the number of polio cases fell rapidly to less than 100 in the 1960s and fewer than 10 in the 1970s.
It is given by shot in the arm or leg depending on the person s age. Researchers at the institute of medical biology at the chinese academy of medical sciences which has invented vaccines for polio and hepatitis a started a phase ii trial of an inactivated virus.