For Polio, Two Vaccines Are Better than One (VIDEO)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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This animation highlights a study that explains how combined use of two different polio vaccines could help speed the global eradication of polio. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 22, 2014, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Hamid Jafari at the World Health Organization, India-National Polio Surveillance Project in New Delhi, India, and colleagues was titled, 'Efficacy of inactivated poliovirus vaccine in India.'

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