The search for vaccines to fight poliomyelitis started in the 1920s, but it wasn't until the 1950s that the search bore fruit with the introduction of two vaccines. The first was the Salk inactivated ...

The effort to eradicate polio began in 1988 with a target of making the world free of the disease by the start of the new millennium. But the virus has proved to be a much more di ...

Children given inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) at least 6 months after the oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) series develop better immunity, according to a report published online July 11 in the Lancet.

Aside from recent outbreaks of polio in war-torn regions of the world, the deadly virus is close to being eradicated, thanks to vaccines. All vaccines work by training our immune systems to recognize ...

Creator of the first successful polio vaccine, Dr. Jonas Salk said on the question of who owned the patent for the inactivated polio vaccine in 1955, “Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent ...

Child receives polio vaccine injection with the Tropis Needle-free Injection System during a vaccination campaign in Somalia.

Considered by public health officials to be one of the greatest success stories in recent history, the polio vaccine is currently the subject of a petition by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s lawyer to ...