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An inactivated poliovirus given by injection ipv and a weakened poliovirus given by mouth opv.

Gc flu influenza vaccine. Rotary members have contributed more than 21 billion and countless volunteer. Two important tools help to prevent polio two safe effective vaccines. Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than 35 years.

As a founding partner of the global polio eradication initiative weve reduced polio cases by 999 percent since our first project to vaccinate children in the philippines in 1979. The world health organization who recommends all children be fully vaccinated against polio. Cdc recommends that children get four doses of polio vaccine.

Find out about the oral polio vaccin. Ipv is given by shot in the leg or arm depending on the patients age. Polio cant be cured but it can be prevented.

In these pages we take you to nigeria which could soon be declared free of wild poliovirus to show you some of the many ways the polio eradication campaign. Polio vaccines are vaccines used to prevent poliomyelitis polio. Rotary maintains an extensive inventory of high resolution photos hd videos advertisements and graphics to support polio eradication efforts.

A 2010 study estimates that vitamin a drops given to children at the same time as the polio vaccine have prevented 125 million deaths by decreasing susceptibility to infectious diseases. Find these materials and more in rotarys brand center. Inactivated polio vaccine ipv is the only polio vaccine that has been given in the united states since 2000.

Use these materials to reach out to news media in your community or for your own events. The global polio eradication initiative is a public private partnership led by national governments with six core partners the world health organization who rotary international the us centers for disease control and prevention cdc the united nations childrens fund unicef the bill melinda gates foundation and gavi the vaccine alliance. A boy receives polio vaccine drops during an anti polio campaign in a low income neighborhood in karachi pakistan on april 9 2018.

Reuters while polio has likely affected human. Two types are used. Polio vaccine can prevent polio.

The two vaccines have eliminated polio from most of the world and reduced the number of cases reported each year. Some people will experience sore throat fever tiredness. Most people infected with poliovirus have no symptoms and many recover without complications.