Vol. 35 No. 4 (2018): Agosto
Historic Note

Reflections on the history of polio vaccines.

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  • Hugo Dibarboure
Hugo Dibarboure
Sanofi Pasteur

Published 2018-09-17

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Dibarboure H. Reflections on the history of polio vaccines. Rev. Chilena. Infectol. [Internet]. 2018 Sep. 17 [cited 2025 Nov. 15];35(4). Available from: https://revinf.cl/index.php/revinf/article/view/180

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Abstract

One of the great experiences worldwide has been vaccination against poliomyelitis as well as vaccination against smallpox. Possibly with the help of better sanitary conditions of the populations (being a disease of oral - fecal transmission) we are at the doors of eradication, but above all thanks to the intervention with the polio vaccines, both inactivated and oral. The technical topics of the vaccines used will not be treated, both have been extraordinary tools to reach this moment. The quotation from William Shakespeare can not be more appropriate: “the past is the prologue”, placed on a marble at the entrance of a public building in Washington DC.
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