Now add smallpox. Effective and safe vaccination against smallpox significantly increased life expectancy.
Just freaking amazing!!! Thank you for posting) and esp to the authors!
Going to show my students this one. We were recently discussing the list of things that once would kill us but no longer due thanks to vaccines. Today my students don't even know these ailments exist.
Image shows table picturing number of deaths prevented by vaccine 1974-2024 globally: measles 93,712,000 Tetanus 97,955,000 Pertussis 13,155,000 Tuberculosis 10,902,000 Haemophilus influenzae 2,858,000 Poliomyelitis 1,570,000 Other pathogens included in study 3,706,000
Woo-hoo! Another good graph to use in my upcoming lecture on the immune system.
Wait til they add malaria to that.
I’m a little surprised it’s not more.
!!!!!!! OMG this is great. I am a booster booster and I had no idea that the numbers for measles looked like this. Holy cow.