polio vaccine

noun

1. a vaccine administered to induce specific active immunity to poliomyelitis.

Example Sentences

The WHO had aimed to give 119,000 children in the area a second dose of the oral polio vaccine.

From BBC

Almost 120,000 children in northern Gaza had been expected to receive a second dose of the oral polio vaccine.

From BBC

“However, given that the area currently approved for temporary humanitarian pauses was substantially reduced - now limited only to Gaza City, a significant decrease from the first round - many children in northern Gaza would have missed out on the polio vaccine dose.”

From BBC

“I could already see that we could not do a polio vaccine campaign in those conditions, in that environment. Parents would not be able to bring their children, teams would not be able to move around.”

From BBC

Each child must receive two drops of oral polio vaccine in two rounds, the second to be administered four weeks after the first.

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