After 1st U.S. polio case in a decade, doctors in Canada stress vaccination
Must be ‘very careful’ not to vaccinate with ‘live’ polio vaccine: Fauci
Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical advisor to the president and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases , warned Friday that health officials must be “very careful” not to vaccinate with the “live” oral polio vaccine, and instead use the safer “kill vaccine.” Purportedly, a man in Rockland County, N.Y., who was recently diagnosed with Polio may have been exposed to it by someone who recently received the “live” oral vaccine, officials suggest.
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