Why were you given a GG injection? Were you exposed to hepatitis? You do not get the IPV and OPV at the same time. Either one or the other. IPV is injectable polio, OPV is oral usually sublingual, or back in the 60's, a drop on a sugar cube.
How old are you Jay...Polio vaccine has been around more than 50 years, and GG does not treat the same as polio, or PCN.
Date Posted:12:46:51 06/18/09 Thu
Uh-no. In the early 1950's, before the polio vaccines were developed, Gamma Globulin was found to slow the very rapid spread of polio at that time. It wasn't a permanent preventative like the Salk and Sabine vaccines, but it slowed the spread considerably. It was given in large doses, usually 10cc's in either one or two injections. I was indicating that a 3cc penicillin injection was rather small compared with the 10cc GG injections thousands of kids received (including me) in the early '50's.
