A more affordable, lower-risk polio vaccine is on the horizon, research led by the University of Leeds has found.

Scientists have developed a vaccine using virus-like particles (VLPs), which mimic the poliovirus but do not contain any genetic material. This removes the risk of infection while still triggering an ...

University of Leeds researchers have taken a major step towards producing a more affordable and lower-risk polio vaccine using virus-like particles (VLPs). These particles mimic the outer protein ...

The CDC recommends four doses of the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), which is 99% effective, before the age of 6. “If you drop immunization rates low enough in various areas, polio could come ...

As the measles outbreak in the U.S. spreads, experts fear that other preventable diseases, including polio, rubella, and mumps, could return. Here’s what you can do to stay safe.

In a paper published in Nature Communications, the findings show that VLPs produced in both yeast and insect cells can perform equally or better than the current inactivated polio vaccine (IPV ...

US-based PharmaJet, a company dedicated to enhancing injectable performance through needle-free injection technology, has ...

Tropis was used to deliver fractional dose inactivated polio vaccine (fIPV) in parallel to oral polio vaccine (OPV) administration as part of a WHO recommended strategy to boost humoral immunity.