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Q: What was the polio vaccine used for?
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Is the polio vaccine used to treat plantar warts?

No. It is only used to prevent polio.


What type of vaccine is polio vaccine?

To protect against polio.


What is anti polio vaccine?

a vaccine that stops you getting polio!


Which is more commonly used here in the US inactivated polio vaccine or Oral polio vaccine?

Inactivated polio vaccine is given to children as part of their routine infant vaccinations during their first 18 months or so.


How has polio nearly been eradicated from the world?

In 1955, a vaccine was developed that used weakened forms of the virus. This vaccine and the subsequent Sabin vaccine nearly wiped out polio in the world


Who invented the polio vaccine?

Jonas Salk developed an inactivated virus polio vaccine in 1952 that was first used on people in 1955. Albert Sabin developed a live vaccine in 1958. It was the Sabin vaccine that was used to eliminate Polio around the world, but it was then removed from service because of its higher rate of induced disease.


Who formulated the oral polio vaccine?

Albert Sabin founded the oral polio vaccine and the vaccine was licensed in 1962.


Why was polio vaccine invented?

To prevent polio.


Who developed a vaccine to combat polio?

In the 1950s, Salk developed the first polio vaccine, an injection. In 1962, Sabin developed the oral polio vaccine, taken by mouth, and still used, at present.


To whom is pulse polio vaccine given?

The pulse polio vaccine is given to small children.


What the vaccine developed by Dr Jones Salk?

Jonas Salk is credited with creating the polio vaccine. His creation basically eliminated polio in countries where it is used. He spent the last years of his life researching a vaccine for AIDS.


Who came up with the polio vaccine?

Jonas Salk came up with the first injectable polio vaccine, followed by Albert Sabin who came up with the first oral polio vaccine.