Live virus vaccines comprise attenuated viruses, while other vaccines
comprise killed viruses or parts thereof. It has now been found that the
immune response induced by oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV), which is a live
vaccine, is cross-reactive with non-polio enteroviruses. OPV is therefore
useful in the prevention of non-polio enterovirus diseases, especially
Type 1 diabetes mellitus (IDDM). OPV is also useful in combination with
killed/subunit non-polio enterovirus vaccines, whereby it prevents
harmful side-effects of the killed/subunit vaccine by shifting the immune
response from a harmful Th2-type response to a Th1 type response.