Do I Need To Have A Booster Polio Vaccination?
Polio seems to have returned and cases are rising in North-East London, where I live.
I was vaccinated using an injecton in the 1950s, so it must have been the Salk vaccine.
In today’s Sunday Times, there is an article, which is entitled A Little More Vaccination: Elvis Presley And The Race To Beat Polio, where this is said.
Sabin’s live vaccine could be swallowed as a drop on a sugar cube. This mimics the route that the virus takes naturally, entering the body’s gut. Salk’s dead virus had to be injected. Most importantly, it turned out that Sabin’s vaccine could give lifelong immunity, while Salk’s only protected for a few years.
As it is more than a few years, since I was vaccinated, do I need a booster?
The Anonymous Widower 