Polio — Vax Before Travel

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Jun 17

6 min read

Top 10 Travel Alerts for Summer 2019

Travel Advisories are issued by the CDC and the US Department of State

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Fact checked by Kelley Lu, PharmD

Jun 10

3 min read

Polio Vaccinations Receive $100 Million Dollar Boost

Polio Virus has been reported by 6 countries in 2019

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Travel Alerts

Fact checked by John Paul Sanchez, PharmD

Jun 6

4 min read

Wild Poliovirus Eradication Can Be Achieved

Sabin strain based Inactivated Polio Vaccine (sIPV) demonstrated an immunogenicity profile non-inferior to that of the conventional IPV

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Fact checked by Robert Carlson, MD

May 26

5 min read

Poliovirus Detected in Iran

Afghanistan and Pakistan have reported WPV1 polio cases in 2019

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Fact checked by Robert Carlson, MD

May 18

4 min read

India’s Oral Polio Vaccines Reported ‘Substandard’

Inactivated polio vaccine has now been introduced into most childrens vaccination programs

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