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September 1989, Vol 143, No. 9 >
Article | September 1989

Poliovirus Vaccine Policy:  Another Perspective FREE

Am J Dis Child. 1989;143(9):1007-1009. doi:10.1001/archpedi.1989.02150210031013.
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Throughout the 1950s parents greeted each summer with mounting anxiety as outbreaks of polio were responsible annually for 20000 to 25 000 cases of paralytic disease. In 1954, the Francis field trial demonstrated the efficacy of inactivated polio virus vaccine (IPV) in the prevention of this dread infection. Beginning in 1955, widespread use of IPV resulted in a marked decline in the annual reported incidence of polio. In 1959, however, there was an incipient upswing in the number of people contracting polio, a significant proportion of whom had previously received three or more injections of IPV Coupled with the dramatic reports of the success of oral polio virus vaccine (OPV) in Europe and other parts of the world, a shift took place in 1961 in the United States with a transition from the IPV to an OPV program. Soon thereafter, reported cases of paralytic disease due

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Kim-Farley RJ, Bart KJ, Schonberger LB et al.  Poliomyelitis in the USA: virtual elimination of disease caused by wild virus . Lancet . 1984;; 2:1315-1317.
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Racaniello VR, Baltimore D.  Molecular cloning of poliovirus cDNA and determination of the viral genome . Proc Natl Acad Sci USA . 1981;; 214:916-918.
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Fulginiti VA.  The current state of pertussis and pertussis vaccines . AJDC . 1989;;143:532-533.
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Hinman AR, Koplan JP, Orenstein WA, Brink EW, Nkowane BM.  Live or inactivated poliomyelitis vaccine: an analysis of benefits and risks . Am J Public Health . 1988;;78:291-295.
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Salk D.  Polio immunization policy in the United States: a new challenge for a new generation . Am J Public Health . 1988;;78:296-300.
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 Wild poliovirus isolation in the Americas, 1988 . Expanded Program on Immunization in the America's Newsletter . Washington, DC: Pan American Health Organization; 1989;;XI:1.

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