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About Vaccines

After improved access to clean, safe drinking water, vaccination is the 20th century’s greatest public health triumph.

Immunisation saves 2-3 millions lives each year, but over 1.5 million still die from vaccine-preventable diseases.1

These bubbles are sized according to the annual number of disease cases in the US during the 1900s versus 2017. We’ve come so far. It’s a reminder that while disease rates are decreasing, most diseases haven’t disappeared. This is why we continue to vaccinate.5

THEN

Annual US disease cases in the 1900s5

NOW

US disease cases in 20175

References:

  1. UNICEF. Immunisation Programme. Available at https://www.unicef.org/immunization/. Last accessed Aug 2019.
  2. World Health Organization. Anniversary of smallpox eradication. Available at https://www.who.int/features/2010/smallpox/en/. Last accessed Aug 2019.
  3. World Health Organization. Poliomyelitis. Available at http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs114/en/index.html. Last accessed Aug 2019.
  4. World Health Organization. Measles. Available at http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs286/en/index.html. Last accessed Aug 2019.
  5. Fact about vaccines: vaccines.com. Available at https://www.vaccines.com/. Last accessed Aug 2019.