Poliomyelitis (Polio) - World Health Organization (WHO)
Aug 16, 2020 · Polio vaccine, given multiple times, almost always protects a child for life. The development of effective vaccines to prevent paralytic polio was one of the major medical breakthroughs of the 20th century. There are six different vaccines to stop polio transmission: Inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) – protects against poliovirus types 1, 2, and 3
Poliomyelitis - World Health Organization (WHO)
Oct 22, 2024 · Polio vaccine, given multiple times, can protect a child for life. There are two vaccines available: oral polio vaccine and inactivated polio vaccine . Both are effective and safe, and both are used in different combinations worldwide, depending on local epidemiological and programmatic circumstances, to ensure the best possible protection to ...
Two Polio Vaccines - World Health Organization (WHO)
Oct 11, 2024 · Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious viral disease that largely affects children under 5 years of age. The virus is transmitted by person-to-person spread mainly through the faecal-oral route or, less frequently, by a common vehicle (e.g. contaminated water or food) and multiplies in the intestine, from where it can invade the nervous system and cause paralysis.
Safety profile of nOPV2 vaccine - World Health Organization (WHO)
Mar 1, 2024 · The first polio vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk, from formaldehyde-inactivated wild polio viruses. Salk’s IPV was tested and proved highly efficacious against paralytic poliomyelitis in a large clinical trial conducted in US schoolchildren in 1954, which was rapidly followed by licensure of the product and implementation of mass ...
Around 560 000 children vaccinated in first round of polio …
Sep 13, 2024 · Around 560 000 children under ten years old were vaccinated against polio during the first round of an emergency vaccination campaign conducted in three phases from 1-12 September 2024 in the Gaza Strip. The 12-day campaign provided novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) to 558 963 children, following meticulous planning and coordination.
Polio vaccines: WHO position paper – June 2022
Jun 24, 2022 · In accordance with its mandate to provide guidance to Member States on health policy matters, WHO issues a series of regularly updated position papers on vaccines and combinations of vaccines against diseases that have an international public health impact. These papers are concerned primarily with the use of vaccines in large-scale immunization …
Statement of the Thirty-ninth Meeting of the Polio IHR Emergency …
13 August 2024. Statement. Reading time: 16 min (4206 words) The thirty-ninth meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) on the international spread of poliovirus was convened by the WHO Director-General on 08 July 2024 with committee members and advisers meeting via video conference with affected ...
Poliomyelitis - World Health Organization (WHO)
Oct 27, 2023 · Oral polio vaccine (OPV) contains an attenuated (weakened) vaccine-virus, activating an immune response in the body. When a child is immunized with OPV, the weakened vaccine-virus replicates in the intestine for a limited period, thereby developing immunity by building up antibodies. During this time, the vaccine-virus is also excreted.
History of polio vaccination - World Health Organization (WHO)
Albert Bruce Sabin (1906–1993), the man who made the oral polio vaccine. A second type of polio vaccine, the oral polio vaccine (OPV) was developed by physician and microbiologist Albert Sabin. Sabin’s vaccine was live-attenuated (using the virus in weakened form) and could be given orally, as drops or on a sugar cube.
Poliomyelitis (polio) EURO - World Health Organization (WHO)
Aug 2, 2024 · Poliomyelitis (polio) Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious and sometimes fatal disease caused by a virus. It invades the nervous system and can cause irreversible paralysis. The disease usually affects children under five years of age. Polio cannot be cured, but there are safe vaccines that can effectively prevent the disease.