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Newsletters
Newsletters 2008
The Impact and Future of Vaccines
3 April, 2008 - A recent study conducted by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that cases of vaccine-preventable diseases have reached an all-time low in the U.S. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that for nine of fourteen diseases studied hospitalizations and deaths fell over 90%. Those nine diseases include diphtheria, measles, poliomyelitis, rubella, congenital rubella syndrome, small pox, mumps, tetanus, and Hib disease.
For the remaining four diseases—hepatitis A and B, pneumococcal disease, and varicella—hospitalizations and deaths declined less than 90%, but this is largely attributable to the fact that these vaccines are relatively new.
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