: a polio vaccine that contains three serotypes of poliovirus in a weakened, live state and is administered orally compare salk vaccine
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Since that lone 2013 case, which might have been transmitted by a foreign traveler to one of the rare individuals in America who never got the Sabin vaccine, there have been no more.
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Thomas D. Elias, Orange County Register, 17 May 2024
The component of the Sabin vaccine that most frequently regained the power to paralyze was the part that targeted type 2 polio.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 26 May 2023
In 2022, nearly 800 children or young adults in roughly two dozen countries developed paralytic polio after being infected with one of the vaccine viruses from the Sabin vaccines.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 16 Mar. 2023
Martinello said the cases likely were caught from the oral Sabin vaccine, introduced in 1960, which contained weakened live virus.
—Hartford Courant, 13 Sep. 2022
The Sabin vaccine takes advantage of that process: The vaccine virus replicates in a child, gets pooped out, and spreads its protection to unvaccinated neighbors.
—Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2022
Cold War tensions raised suspicion about the Sabin vaccine, but in 1961, the American Medical Association finally recommended its use over the Salk vaccine.
—Thomas Balcerski, CNN, 11 June 2021
The vaccinations were easier with the Sabin vaccine than the current coronavirus vaccines, since the Salk vaccine had already greatly reduced the threat of polio.
—Cameron Fields, cleveland, 13 Jan. 2021
The Sabin vaccine was created in the 1940s and ’50s by passaging the virus through animal cells until scientists found a suitably weakened form.
—Leslie Roberts, Science | AAAS, 10 Nov. 2020
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Thomas D. Elias, Orange County Register, 17 May 2024
The component of the Sabin vaccine that most frequently regained the power to paralyze was the part that targeted type 2 polio.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 26 May 2023
In 2022, nearly 800 children or young adults in roughly two dozen countries developed paralytic polio after being infected with one of the vaccine viruses from the Sabin vaccines.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 16 Mar. 2023
Martinello said the cases likely were caught from the oral Sabin vaccine, introduced in 1960, which contained weakened live virus.
—Hartford Courant, 13 Sep. 2022
The Sabin vaccine takes advantage of that process: The vaccine virus replicates in a child, gets pooped out, and spreads its protection to unvaccinated neighbors.
—Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2022
Cold War tensions raised suspicion about the Sabin vaccine, but in 1961, the American Medical Association finally recommended its use over the Salk vaccine.
—Thomas Balcerski, CNN, 11 June 2021
The vaccinations were easier with the Sabin vaccine than the current coronavirus vaccines, since the Salk vaccine had already greatly reduced the threat of polio.
—Cameron Fields, cleveland, 13 Jan. 2021
The Sabin vaccine was created in the 1940s and ’50s by passaging the virus through animal cells until scientists found a suitably weakened form.
—Leslie Roberts, Science | AAAS, 10 Nov. 2020
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Sabin vaccine
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Sa·bin vaccine
ˈsā-bin- 
: a polio vaccine that is taken by mouth and contains the three serotypes of poliovirus in a weakened, live state
called also Sabin oral vaccine
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