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stockmule, If only vaccines hadn't wiped smallpox out! And we could have so
much more polio around. Imagine. What a more wonderful world it could be!!!

What diseases have vaccines eradicated?

By German [e-mail]@vox.com Aug 25, 2016, 1:41pm EDT

So far, we’ve used vaccines to entirely wipe out .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eradication_of_infectious_diseases .. two diseases: smallpox and rinderpest, which infects cattle.

We’ve also come extremely close to eradicating polio, with less than 500 new cases annually, largely in Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan.

In the United States, a long list of diseases .. http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/02/22/1622871/vaccines-impact-infographic/ .. have been nearly eradicated by vaccines: diphtheria, bacterial influenza, measles, mumps, rubella, and tetanus, among others.

Still, there are many developing countries that have limited vaccine supplies and scant funding for childhood vaccination services, which has allowed preventable diseases like whooping cough and rotavirus to continue spreading.

On the whole, though, the world has made progress: Global vaccination rates for measles .. http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.A826 , for example, climbed to 84 percent in 2013. UNICEF and the World Health Organization are always working .. http://www.who.int/immunization/global_vaccine_action_plan/en/ .. to increase this number, focusing heavily on underdeveloped or developing countries with low vaccination rates.

The global vaccine coverage goals are crucial because diseases can’t infect or spread through vaccinated people — so if enough people are vaccinated, a pathogen won’t be able to find a new host and will eventually die off.

How radical gardeners took back New York City

https://www.vox.com/2018/8/21/17588074/vaccines-diseases-wiped-out

You anti-vaxxers are taking such a stupendously ignorant and recklessly dangerous
line on all this i wish you had the gumption to sit down quietly and revisit your views.

I think it's likely that many of you initially got hooked into basically a political position
and have now got yourself into a fix many of you might secretly prefer not to be in.

In striving to not fully believe you could be as stupid as you appear to be (so as to
give you some credit) those are the most charitable positions i can arrive at for now