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
Provider Education
- CDC/Medscape Expert Commentary Video: Ruling Out Poliovirus in Cases of Acute Flaccid Paralysisexternal icon
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 Abroadexternal icon
- Vaccine-derived Poliovirus Questions and Answers
Materials for Patients
- Polio and the Vaccine (Shot) to Prevent It (Fact sheet for parents)
- Vaccine Information Statement (VIS)
- History of polioexternal icon
- Stories of people who suffered or died from vaccine-preventable diseasesexternal icon
- Polio: Questions and Answers pdf icon[3 pages]external icon
Clinical Information
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
- CDC Global Health polio eradication
- 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
Page last reviewed: May 4, 2018
Content source: National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases