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Terms To Remember
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Vaccination Works!
Measles
• Let’s look at the history of measles.
By 2000, only 81
cases are reported
in all of the U.S.!
Vaccination Works!
Hib Meningitis
• Consider the history of Hib meningitis.
• Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) disease usually
strikes children under 5 years of age.
• Hib can cause blood poisoning or meningitis.
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Polio
• Polio, caused by a virus, was once America’s
most feared disease, causing death or
paralysis. Its most famous victim was
President Franklin Roosevelt.
1951-1954: Paralytic
polio strikes nearly
20,000 Americans
every year, killing Today there are no reports
nearly 1,900. of polio in the United
States, but the disease still
First polio vaccine exists in some parts of the
is licensed. world.
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