The World Is About To Switch To A New Polio Vaccine

Over the next two weeks, public health officials are attempting something radical: getting the whole world to switch from one version of the oral polio vaccine to another. The Polio Eradication Initiative says this is “the largest withdrawal of one vaccine, and associated roll out of another vaccine in history.”

Here & Now’s Robin Young talks with Helen Branswell, infectious disease and public health reporter for STAT, the national health and medicine publication, about the hopes – and the risks – associated with this switch to the new vaccine.

• Read Helen Branswell’s full story on STAT

Guest

• Helen Branswell, infectious diseases and public health reporter for STAT. She tweets @HelenBranswell.

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