Ten million lives saved by 1962 breakthrough, study says

(University of Illinois at Chicago) Nearly 200 million cases of polio, measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, adenovirus, rabies and hepatitis A -- and approximately 450,000 deaths from these diseases -- were prevented in the US alone between 1963 and 2015 by vaccination, researchers estimate. The study is published in AIMS Public Health.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news