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Polio | Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
VEC Vaccine Notes
14 minutes
2 weeks ago
Polio | Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about polio and the polio vaccine. She addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of polio disease and the vaccine.
Find out:
- Who is likely the most famous person to have had polio
- The four possible outcomes of a polio infection
- What condition related to previous polio infection occurs during adulthood
- About how the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) and oral polio vaccine (OPV) work differently and why that mattered for polio elimination efforts
- What VAPP is and when it happens
To learn more about polio and the vaccines, please visit https://bit.ly/vec-polio.
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For other vaccines, diseases or general questions about vaccines, check out https://vaccine.chop.edu.
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