{"id":8145,"date":"2024-11-19T16:07:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T22:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8145"},"modified":"2024-11-19T16:07:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T22:07:46","slug":"the-stunning-success-of-vaccines-in-america-in-one-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/11\/19\/the-stunning-success-of-vaccines-in-america-in-one-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"The stunning success of vaccines in America, in one chart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/386215\/trump-rfk-jr-vaccines-health-measles-chart\">Vox<\/a> America, before and after vaccines. Measles, mumps, and polio are supposed to be diseases of the past. In the early to mid-20th century, scientists developed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/vaccines\">vaccines<\/a>&nbsp;that effectively eliminated the risk of anyone getting sick or dying from illnesses that had killed millions over millennia of human history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vaccines, alongside sanitized water and antibiotics, have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-023-38798-z#:~:text=Vaccines%20have%20revolutionized%20modern%20medicine,their%20impact%20on%20disease%20prevention.\">marked the epoch of modern medicine<\/a>. The US was at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/system\/files\/working_papers\/w27375\/w27375.pdf\">the cutting edge of eliminating these diseases<\/a>, which helped propel life expectancy and economic growth in the postwar era. Montana native\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hillemanfilm.com\/dr-hilleman\">Maurice Hilleman<\/a>, the so-called father of modern vaccines, developed flu shots, hepatitis shots, and the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine in the 1950s and \u201960s, which became virtually universally adopted among Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/386215\/trump-rfk-jr-vaccines-health-measles-chart\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"ree GQQ  J o EEXYABddJo\"><!-- ree GQQ  J o EEXYABddJo --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vox America, before and after vaccines. Measles, mumps, and polio are supposed to be diseases of the past. In the early to mid-20th century, scientists developed&nbsp;vaccines&nbsp;that effectively eliminated the risk of anyone getting sick or dying from illnesses that had killed millions over millennia of human history. Vaccines, alongside sanitized water and antibiotics, have\u00a0marked the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8146,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145\/revisions\/8146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}