A more affordable, lower-risk polio vaccine is on the horizon, research led by the University of Leeds has found.

Data on the number of cases for these diseases from the pre-vaccine era is hard to come by, and even the case counts are ...

What Is the Polio Vaccine? The polio vaccine or shot helps stop the spread of polio. The U.S. uses the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV). It's one of two types of polio vaccinations to prevent ...

University of Leeds researchers have taken a major step towards producing a more affordable and lower-risk polio vaccine ...

Coverage with measles-mumps-rubella (MMR), diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis (DTaP), polio, and varicella, or chickenpox vaccines, all declined in more than 30 states last year compared with ...

Researchers have taken a major step towards producing a more affordable and lower-risk polio vaccine using virus-like particles (VLPs). These particles mimic the outer protein shell of poliovirus, but ...

Thomas LaVeist We no longer fear polio. The vaccine for poliomyelitis has made this debilitating disease almost entirely a thing of the past, so much so that hardly anyone alive remembers the ...