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Bookmark or Share- How was smallpox wiped out? | World Economic ForumMild reactions to the vaccine can include fever, fatigue and tiredness. But it carries a small risk of serious side-effects, including a condition called progressive vaccinia, where the vaccine triggers an uncontrolled replication of the virus at the vaccination site. Surrounding skin and flesh tissues then slowly starts to die.
- A brief history of vaccines and how they changed the worldScientific advances in the first half of the 20th Century led to an explosion of vaccines that protected against whooping cough (1914), diphtheria (1926), tetanus (1938), influenza (1945) and mumps (1948). Thanks to new manufacturing techniques, vaccine production could be scaled up by the late 1940s, setting global vaccination and disease ...
- Vaccines have killed off these deadly diseasesPolio, a life-threatening virus that can cause temporary or permanent paralysis, has also been wiped out in the US as a result of vaccination. A small number of measles and rubella cases are still recorded in the US, although vaccines have been successful in reducing rates by 99.9%.
- We've had COVID-19 vaccines for one year. What to do next | World ...COVID-19 vaccines have yet to reach 3.6 billion people. That is happening now because even though many wealthy countries, like the UK, have already fully vaccinated around 70% of their citizens, there are around 3.6 billion people in the world – predominantly in the poorest countries – who have still not yet had their first shot.
- The world’s first cancer vaccine trial has started. Here’s what that ...A cancer vaccine could have a vastly significant impact worldwide. Overall, 10,000 people could receive bespoke cancer treatments on the UK National Health Service, the world’s largest publicly funded health service , by 2030.
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