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Listen to “VEC Vaccine Notes,” a video and podcast series presented by the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Each episode offers vaccine information in a convenient format, so families have the answers they need to make informed decisions, including details and context that addresses what they may have heard in the news or in conversation with others.
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Wednesday Oct 22, 2025
Wednesday Oct 22, 2025
Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about polio and the polio vaccine. She addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of polio disease and the vaccine.
Find out:
- Who is likely the most famous person to have had polio
- The four possible outcomes of a polio infection
- What condition related to previous polio infection occurs during adulthood
- About how the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) and oral polio vaccine (OPV) work differently and why that mattered for polio elimination efforts
- What VAPP is and when it happens
To learn more about polio and the vaccines, please visit https://bit.ly/vec-polio.
Questions? Submit the VEC Vaccine Notes form.
For other vaccines, diseases or general questions about vaccines, check out https://vaccine.chop.edu.
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