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VACCINE AWARENESS
Scientists continuously study and track I think that the discoveries of
diseases to help stop their spread and to antibiotics and vaccines have
keep people safe. One of the most effective contributed to the improvement
ways to do this is through the use of of the quality of life, making it
vaccines. For instance, polio outbreaks possible to prevent contagious
reached a peak in the United States in the diseases.
early 1950s. The disease caused paralysis in
more than 15,000 people each year. After a Professor Shinya Yamanaka,
vaccine was released in 1955, cases dropped winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize
significantly (see page 17). By 1965, there in Physiology or Medicine, on
were just 61 cases of paralysis due to polio. what he believes to be the
biggest life-enhancing scientific
development.
q Children wait in line for
vaccinations at a health
station in New York City,
New York, in the 1940s.
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