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polio vaccine

American  

noun

  1. a vaccine administered to induce specific active immunity to poliomyelitis.


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He went on to test a candidate polio vaccine in countries including Poland, Yugoslavia, Switzerland and the Belgian Congo.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 21, 2026

Aaby and his colleagues have followed populations before and after the oral polio vaccine campaigns that began in 1995 and ended in roughly 2015 in various low-income countries such as Guinea-Bissau, Ghana, Bangladesh and Uganda.

From Salon Jul. 12, 2025

That was the nationwide trial of Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine.

From Los Angeles Times May 8, 2025

The idea that anyone would question the polio vaccine now, she said, “makes me nuts.”

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 18, 2024

What had happened in medicine since the polio vaccine?

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

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