Polio Topics

CDC offers several sources of information about poliomyelitis. We have listed links to them here for your convenience.

What you need to know

• Polio disease
  View a brief description of polio symptoms, transmission, etc.
  For more details on polio, consult the detailed polio disease section.

• Polio vaccination
  Learn what you need to know about the U.S. polio vaccine in 2 short compact pages.
  Consult the detailed polio vaccination section for many more resources and details.
  See how far we've progressed by viewing the 50th anniversary of the polio vaccine.

• Travelers' health
  Get travel health information for your specific destination or geographic region.

For healthcare professionals

• Polio vaccination
  Locate resources, recommendations, guidelines, etc., for health consumers and healthcare professionals.

• Poliomyelitis clinical textbook chapter
  Read about the history and clinical features of polio virus from the
  Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (Pink Book).

• Poliomyelitis surveillance textbook chapter
  Provides guidelines for those directly involved in surveillance especially personnel at the local health departments (Manual for the Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases).

• Travelers' health information on polio (Yellow Book)
  Read about the health information for international travel.

Global Polio Eradication

• Global polio eradication initiatives
  Find podcasts, articles, global partner websites, Stop the Transmission Of Polio (STOP) team resources, etc.

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