#VaccinesWork 6 Childhood Scourges We’ve Forgotten About, Thanks to Vaccines www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h... Measles Diphtheria Tetanus Mumps Rubella Polio: "In the U.S, vaccines drove paralytic polio cases down from more than 21,000 in 1952 to just one in 1993." - ThreadSky

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caulfieldtim.bsky.social • 104 days ago

#VaccinesWork

6 Childhood Scourges We’ve Forgotten About, Thanks to Vaccines https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/health/childhood-diseases-vaccines-preventable.html?smid=tw-share

Measles

Diphtheria

Tetanus

Mumps

Rubella

Polio: "In the U.S, vaccines drove paralytic polio cases down from more than 21,000 in 1952 to just one in 1993."

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janehalldesign.bsky.social•104 days ago

danskinner.bsky.social•104 days ago

Many pediatricians I know are reading up on once vanquished childhood diseases, preparing for RFK Jr-era policies to bring them back. A truly horrible and unforced public health mistake.

helbird.bsky.social•103 days ago

Tetanus is a problem for every age group, especially now with people not seeming to know how they can get it or prevent it. How many people even know the outside recommendation for a booster is a maximum of 10 years? Or that it can occur as the result of a crush injury?

rossqsmith.bsky.social•104 days ago

#RepubliKKKans long for "the good old days"... when women and Black people couldn't vote, there were no weekends or holidays for workers and child labor was a viable way to reduce OpEx. So it's only fair that as we regress, we get to bring back these classic, cute little coffins and graves.