Delivering the gene that caused polio to pregnant women?

Special emphasis is given to avoiding the oral live attenuated SABIN-type polio vaccine that has been reported to cause polio to XLA patients.

I give the baby special polio shots made from killed viruses; the regular oral polio vaccine contains live viruses, and might actually cause polio in someone whose immune system is not working well.

The injected vaccine, which is just as effective as the oral one, cannot cause polio, because it uses an inactivated form of the virus.

A disadvantage of the live vaccine is that in rare cases it can cause polio in recipients and in unvaccinated persons with whom they come into contact.

An oral vaccine, the Sabin vaccine consists of weakened forms of the viruses that cause polio.

The laboratory work involves viruses, bacteria and fungi like those that cause polio, diphtheria, Valley fever, whooping cough, herpes, tuberculosis and many other diseases.

There are 29 known types of Coxsackie viruses, which are in the same family of viruses as those that cause polio in humans and foot-and-mouth disease in cattle.

Stewart developed an interest in researching viral links to cancer in light of the pioneering research of Jonas Salk in developing a vaccine for the virus which caused polio.

They cause polio, smallpox, foot-and-mouth, 'flu, cattle diseases, plant diseases, sore throats and cancer.