Poliomyelitis (polio) is a disease that mainly affects young kids, it is contagious and can cause paralysis and damage the nervous system.
Diploid human cells are derived from the lung tissue of a 3-month gestation aborted human fetus, and are used to prevent viruses; they have saved millions of lives from a lot of different diseases, polio is a prominent example.
A human diploid cell culture line is composed of fibroblasts derived from the lung tissue of a 14 week old aborted Caucasian male fetus. This can be processed into either as inactivated poliovirus vaccine or oral poliovirus vaccine to control and prevent poliomyelitis.
