Vaccine Preventable Diseases -- Smallpox Eradication Smallpox is...

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    Vaccine Preventable Diseases -- Smallpox Eradication

    Smallpox is gone.

    The eradication of a disease is what can happen when communities co-operate and vaccinate.

    Smallpox killed about 30% of the people that it infected and no known cure exists.

    Those that survived had extensive scarring and some went blind.

    It was the first and only annihilation of a human disease -- only possible with vaccination

    Even in countries with extremely poor hygiene, the disease is gone for good.

    This is how the vaccine impacted the incidence of the disease - the arrow shows the introduction of the vaccine.

    https://hotcopper.com.au/data/attachments/1989/1989462-035dc5a6d058101c868db7739042fe80.jpg

    ...and some images of the survivors....


    https://hotcopper.com.au/data/attachments/1989/1989465-ef48af06677b94bb64f0fb384cf3a36b.jpg


    Vaccines really, really work, and that's the truth


    Last edited by MemeFx: 17/02/20
 
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