Immunization: great progresses and challenges
The World Health Organization (WHO) is celebrating the Immunization Week with the main goal of promoting vaccination to protect people at all ages from diseases. Since Jenner invented the first vaccine against smallpox at the end of XVIII century, the progresses in the prevention area have saved millions of lives worldwide and they will continue doing it in the future.
According to the WHO, immunization Immunization averts an estimated 2 to 3 million deaths every year from diphtheria, tentanus, whooping cough and measles. Other preventable diseases through vaccination are meningitis, hepatitis B, mumps, poliomyelitis and rubella, among others. Although the immunization coverage is higher and higher in the world, there are still a lot of challenges to achieve. The same institution shows that around 18.7 million of breast-fed babies worldwide in 2014 were not covered by the system of vaccination, because of that it is necessary to double efforts.
Further information about immunization coverage (WHO)
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