So that you wont get the polio virus it is very bad, children become handicapped.
The pulse polio vaccine is given to small children.
Yes, children in the U.S have to get the vaccine for polio. They get it in the first 6 months of life.
Inactivated polio vaccine is given to children as part of their routine infant vaccinations during their first 18 months or so.
Jonas Salk was a famous American researcher and virologist. He was best known for his polio vaccine. Until this vaccine was introduced polio was the widespread epidemic with most of its victims being children.
Pulse Polio vaccines are given to children of 1-5 age.
In pulse polio programme, polio vaccine is given to all the children below the age of 5 years irrespective of there vaccination schedule, all at a time. This will reduce the burden of polio virus in society drastically.
a vaccine that stops you getting polio!
Dr. Jonas Salk invented the vaccine against the polio. Before that the whole world was worried about the polio. Polio used to affect the most precious population, children! Two years before the invention of the polio vaccine, in US alone about 50,000 children got affected by polio. Dr. Jonas Salk did not get the patent for the vaccine, so that the vaccine became affordable for every body. Today is the 100th birth day of this hero. (28th October 2014.)Jonas Salk invented polio vaccine. He did not patent the vaccine, so that it should be made affordable to every body.
Jonas salk was a scientist that invented the polio vaccine.
Albert Sabin founded the oral polio vaccine and the vaccine was licensed in 1962.
To protect against polio.
To prevent polio.