3. Follow-up doses are needed.
Have you been adequately vaccinated?
A lot of people might imagine vaccinations to be the kind of thing that you only get once and then never have to think about again, but this isn’t always true – and this certainly isn’t true when we’re talking about the polio vaccine. Often just one administration of the polio vaccine isn’t enough to make a difference, and the immune system only responds to the vaccination by the second or third dosage.
Follow-up dosages are needed when it comes to vaccinations against polio, and the first thing you should do at your vaccination appointment is to find out whether another appointment is going to be needed – and when. If you haven’t gotten all of the necessary vaccinations in the right order, especially when traveling, then you could be putting yourself and other people around you at unnecessary risk without even realizing that you’re doing it.