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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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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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024

Before Jonas Salk developed the first successful polio vaccine in the mid-1950s, the disease killed or paralyzed more than half a million people around the world each year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024

Dr. Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine in 1955 to international acclaim, announcing he would also make it free.

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2024

But they don’t never explain more than just sayin, Yeah, your mother was on the moon, she been in nuclear bombs and made that polio vaccine.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

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