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> If you've given the IPV vaccine, you can later be infected and spread polio (with a little less likelihood), but won't become sick. > If you're given the OPV
by klipt 5y ago
> If you've given the IPV vaccine, you can later be infected and spread polio (with a little less likelihood), but won't become sick.
> If you're given the OPV vaccine, you eventually will have sterilizing immunity, and won't spread it, once immunity develops a small time after vaccination. But the OPV vaccine itself very rarely causes polio outbreaks.
What if we have IPV first then OPV as a booster, would that give sterilizing immunity with less risk?
- mlyle 5y ago> > If you're in a part of the world with endemic polio and a good health system, you should be given the IPV vaccine and then the OPV vaccine a few months later.