Re-Release: Ep 26 Vaccines Part 1: Let's hear it for Maurice
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The Rise and Fall of Vaccines
In 1969, which is the last year before a Rubella vaccine was licensed, there were over 55,500 cases reported to the CDC. In 2005, the CDC announced that endemic rubella had been eliminated from the US. And 10 years later, in April 2015, PAHO, the Pan American Health Organization, announced that endemicrubella had been eliminate from the Western Hemisphere. I wanted to illustrate just how many lives vaccines have saved and improved since being developed. So this is what I'll call vaccines by the numbers.
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