Polio | Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about polio and the polio vaccine. She addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of polio disease and the vaccine.  

Find out:

- Who is likely the most famous person to have had polio

- The four possible outcomes of a polio infection

- What condition related to previous polio infection occurs during adulthood

- About how the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) and oral polio vaccine (OPV) work differently and why that mattered for polio elimination efforts

- What VAPP is and when it happens

To learn more about polio and the vaccines, please visit https://bit.ly/vec-polio.

Questions? Submit the VEC Vaccine Notes form, https://bit.ly/contact-vec-vaccine-notes.

For other vaccines, diseases or general questions about vaccines, check out https://vaccine.chop.edu.

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