Immunization Success
Public health success of the century
- Rates of vaccine preventable illnesses have plummeted
- Small pox eliminated from the world
- Polio gone in most of the world
- Measles gone in the Western Hemisphere
Congenital rubella eliminated in the Western hemisphere
Diphtheria and tetanus almost gone
- H. influenzae type b almost gone in the US
S. pneumoniae rates dropped not only in infants but siblings, parents and older
