The oral Sabin vaccine protects against which disease?

The oral Sabin vaccine protects against poliomyelitis. The live oral polio vaccine was developed by Albert Sabin and came into commercial use in 1961.

Two types of vaccine are used: an inactivated poliovirus given by injection (IPV) and a weakened poliovirus given by mouth (OPV). The two vaccines have eliminated polio from most of the world, and reduced the number of cases reported each year from an estimated 350,000 in 1988 to 33 in 2018.

Albert Bruce Sabin (August 26, 1906 – March 3, 1993) was a Polish-born American medical researcher best known for having developed an oral polio vaccine. He received many awards and honors including the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Sheldon Burnston

Oh, I remember lining up in school to get that sugar cube with the splash of red liquid in it....

Joanne Serin

And no one questioned its ingredients, the government, or anyone else about it. We all took it, knowing we would be safe from this horrible crippling disease.

Deborah Gabriel

I remember taken those sugar cubes.

Steve Tingle

Still got the scars from the injections, remember comparing all our upper arm scars in school, 2 or 3 polio and one BGT this was a few years before the sugar cubes became the usual.

Kay Agnew

Sheldon Burnston, I think I had 2 injections and the sugar cube

Linda Sproat Bomar

Micheline Ratcliffe, we had little plastic cups, I remember my parents and siblings and myself getting them all at the same time. In the high school gym.

joesmoothfoster

We share the same birthday! Cool stuff! :)

Micheline Ratcliffe

no sugar cube just a small spoon ...

Dianna Hattori

Sheldon Burnston, Me too

skclary

Born in 1953 and polio had stricken children I grew up around. Terrible!

Eve

I got the shot...they never told us when we were to get it so we just lined up and walked down the hall to the nurse sitting in the hall...no warning...I think our parents were sent a letter but they never told us...