Safe drinking water and indoor toilets predate vaccination programs by one or two generations.
Yes, vaccinations are now required against diseases I had as a child and survived--thanks in part to antibiotics, another innovation of western medicine. But you can still see the effectiveness of vaccinations when something like scarlet fever gets loose in a city where most people have never been exposed. Happens every year.
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Re: Effectiveness of disease control - vaccines or social reforms?
Date: 2009-02-23 05:54 am (UTC)Yes, vaccinations are now required against diseases I had as a child and survived--thanks in part to antibiotics, another innovation of western medicine. But you can still see the effectiveness of vaccinations when something like scarlet fever gets loose in a city where most people have never been exposed. Happens every year.
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