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The causative agents of dangerous diseases can be viruses, bacteria and other pathogenic microorganisms. Medicine fights diseases, including by vaccination.
Thanks to this, many dangerous diseases have become a thing of the past.
Measles at one time it was called childhood plague. She killed more than two and a half million children annually. The vaccine began to be used in 1980. Measles deaths reduced by 75% thanks to vaccine
Hepatitis A or Botkin's disease is caused by a fairly resistant virus, which calmly withstands boiling and other antiseptic procedures. At the same time, the first vaccination against the virus reduces the probability of infection by 95%, and the subsequent one, carried out after 6-12 months, provides lasting immunity for 10 years.
Poliomyelitis affects the nervous system and can lead to paralysis. Mortality from this disease was 30%. The disease is considered practically incurable. Thanks to total vaccination, there are only two countries left in the world where this disease manifests itself: Afghanistan and Pakistan. But as long as there are cases of the disease, the disease is not considered completely defeated.
Epidemic mumps (mumps) affected up to 6% of the Earth's population. Despite the small mortality from the disease, complications from this disease, deafness, infertility, led to the introduction of mandatory vaccination, which significantly reduced the spread of infection.
Far from all viral infections that medicine deals with are listed here. But, even if it seems to you that the disease is defeated, there is nothing to be afraid of and you can refuse vaccination, do not make hasty decisions.
