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polio vaccine

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noun

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


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As a historical counterweight, consider Jonas Salk, the inventor of the polio vaccine, who refused to patent it.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 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

McConnell had warned Kennedy not to undermine the polio vaccine.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2024

A girl named Rose says, “Well, because of her cells the medical field had major breakthroughs, like the polio vaccine, chemotherapy, and the creation of drugs that treat leukemia, influenza, and Parkinson’s disease.”

From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan

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