The infectious disease burden has been significantly decreased thanks to vaccination. Vaccine protection, understandably, receives more media interest than vaccination efficacy, but independent scientists and the World Health Organization have shown that vaccinations are much safer than therapeutic medicines to eradicate infectious diseases. Vaccines for infectious diseases have helped eradicate few diseases and are now very effective, and most “vaccine scares” have been shown to be false alarms. In certain nations, misguided protection fears have resulted in a reduction in vaccine coverage, resulting in the reemergence of pertussis and measles.

Polio

Polio is a potentially fatal illness that causes paralysis when it infects a person’s brain and spinal cord. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, polio disabled an average of 35,000 Americans per year in the 1940s, before a vaccine was developed. Despite the fact that polio has been eradicated in the United States since 1979, it continues to be a problem in some nations. The new vaccine, according to the CDC, is 99 percent safe.

Measles

Measles used to infect millions of people in the United States each year, causing thousands to be hospitalized and hundreds to die. According to the CDC, since vaccines started in the 1960s, there has been a 99 percent decrease in measles outbreaks. Two doses of the MMR vaccine’s measles component are around 97 percent effective in preventing measles.

Mumps

Fevers, headaches, body aches, tiredness, and loss of appetite are common symptoms of mumps, according to the CDC. Until the advent of a vaccine in 1967, the disease was one of the most common causes of meningitis and hearing loss in children in the United States. The mumps part of the MMR vaccine is around 88 percent effective after two doses.

Diphtheria

According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, diphtheria used to be a serious cause of disease and death in children in the United States, and it now kills one out of every ten people who contract it. In the 1920s, the United States saw up to 200,000 cases a year. Thanks to the use of vaccines, that figure has fallen by 99.9%.

Chickenpox

According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, diphtheria used to be a serious cause of disease and death in children in the United States, and it now kills one out of every ten people who contract it. In the 1920s, the United States saw up to 200,000 cases a year. Thanks to the use of vaccines, that figure has fallen by 99.9%.

Although eradication may be the desired target for an immunization program, only smallpox has been fully eradicated, enabling routine smallpox immunization to be discontinued worldwide. If effective vaccines for infectious diseases and specific medical tests are available, other infectious diseases with no extra human reservoir may be eradicated. Eradication necessitates high levels of population immunity in all parts of the world for a long period of time, as well as adequate surveillance. Polio is the next epidemic to be eradicated, and it is still a global issue.