Vaccination Has Virtually Eliminated Many Diseases in the U.S.

Average number of cases per year*

A grid of bar charts showing that for ten diseases, vaccines reduced the number of cases per year to close to zero.

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*The pre-vaccine number is the annual average in the time period before the vaccine was authorized, as estimated in Roush et al. (2022).

Sources: Roush et al., “Historical Comparisons of Morbidity and Mortality for Vaccine-Preventable Diseases in the United States”, JAMA; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.