New study says vaccines have prevented the deaths of 37 million people
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Vaccines
What is a vaccine?
It is a mild form of a disease that is put (injected) into a person or an animal’s blood in order to protect the body against that disease.
Common vaccines include those against diseases like polio, chickenpox and measles.
A study shows that vaccines for 10 major diseases have prevented the deaths of 37 million people in 98 low and middle-income countries (LMICs).
It also says that by 2030, that number could double. Many of the lives saved will be young children.
Researchers say that without vaccines, children born in 2019 (in the 98 LMICs studied) are 45% more likely to die before the age of five.
Over the lifetime of those born between 2000 and 2030, the study shows that 120 million deaths will be prevented by vaccination. Out of these 96 million, will be saved by the measles vaccine and the hepatitis vaccine together.
This study is the largest scale study till now on the subject of the effectiveness of vaccines.
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