Polio Vaccine Resources

Below are a number of resources designed to help healthcare professionals recommend and administer polio vaccines, as well as answer patient questions.

Vaccine Safety

• Vaccine Safety and Monitoring

Provider Education

• CDC/Medscape Expert Commentary Video: Ruling Out Poliovirus in Cases of Acute Flaccid Paralysis
  Most current practitioners have never seen a case of polio. Would you recognize the signs and symptoms? (6:28 minutes) Released Aug 2014
• Pediarix vaccine: questions and answers
• CDC/Medscape Expert Commentary Video: CDC Interim Guidance: Polio Vaccine Requirements for Travelers Abroad
• Vaccine-derived Poliovirus Questions and Answers

Materials for Patients

• Polio and the Vaccine (Shot) to Prevent It (Fact sheet for parents)
  • In English
  • En Español
• Vaccine Information Statement (VIS)
• History of polio
• Stories of people who suffered or died from vaccine-preventable diseases
• Polio: Questions and Answers [3 pages]

Clinical Information

• Polio Clinical Information
• Poliovirus Infections, Red Book

Other References and Resources

• Polio Elimination in the United States
• Polio Chapter, The Pink Book: Course Textbook (12th Edition, 2012)
• Polio Chapter, Manual for the Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (5th Edition, 2011)
• ACIP recommendations
• ACIP – Vaccines for Children (VFC) Resolution
• Global polio disease and vaccines
• Travelers Health: Yellow Book
• Guidance for Assessment of Poliovirus Vaccination Status and Vaccination of Children Who Have Received Poliovirus Vaccine Outside the United States, MMWR January 13, 2017
• Interim CDC Guidance for Polio Vaccination for Travel to and from Countries Affected by Wild Poliovirus, MMWR, July 7, 2014
  • CDC HAN 362: Guidance to US Clinicians Regarding New WHO Polio Vaccination Requirements for Travel by Residents of and Long-term Visitors to Countries with Active Polio Transmission, June 2, 2014

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