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Diarrhea is the second biggest killer of children worldwide, and you've probably been asked to care about things like HIV/AIDS or T.B. or measles, but diarrhea kills more children than all those three things put together.
Measles was killing a couple million a year.
Rates of death from measles, malaria, diarrheal disease are down by over 70 percent.
We asked, what is the percentage of the world's one-year-old children who have got those basic vaccines against measles and other things that we have had for many years: 20, 50 or 80 percent?
Vaccines eradicated terrible diseases such as smallpox from the planet and succeeded in significantly reducing mortality due to other diseases such as measles, whooping cough, polio and many more.
Imagine for a moment that we are in a city that has never had a case of a particular disease, such as the measles.
No one has natural defenses against, nor been vaccinated against measles.
If one day, a person sick with the measles appears in this city the disease won't find much resistance and will begin spreading from person to person, and in no time it will disseminate throughout the community.
We are in a city where more than 90 percent of the population has defenses against the measles, which means that they either had the disease, survived, and developed natural defenses; or that they had been immunized against measles.
If one day, a person sick with the measles appears in this city, the disease will find much more resistance and won't be transmitted that much from person to person.
The spread will probably remain contained and a measles outbreak won't happen.
In 1998, a British researcher published an article in one of the most important medical journals, saying that the MMR vaccine, which is given for measles, mumps and rubella, was associated with autism.
People died of measles.
Just after Christmas last year, 132 kids in California got the measles by either visiting Disneyland or being exposed to someone who'd been there.
One of the tragic things about this outbreak is that measles, which can be fatal to a child with a weakened immune system, is one of the most easily preventable diseases in the world.
As for measles, so much in the news recently, the death toll is actually tenfold higher.
In fact, it's much less transmissible than viruses such as flu or measles.
We vaccinate against polio, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, measles.
For example, measles was four million of the deaths back as recently as 1990 and now is under 400,000.
And in terms of preventing the spread of viruses, I see far-UVC lights in schools, preventing the spread of influenza, preventing the spread of measles, and I see far-UVC lights in airports or airplanes, preventing the global spread of viruses like H1N1 virus.
Little did my parents know, but they were doing more than inoculating me from the measles.
About 12 years ago, there was a story published, a horrible story, that linked the epidemic of autism to the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine shot.
Disastrous because here's a fact: The United States is one of the only countries in the world where the vaccine rate for measles is going down.
Because, did anyone have measles here?
Has one person in this audience ever seen someone die of measles?
We have measles in this country now.
And they're not just going to die of measles.
The same child that is not immunized against measles, if they do get measles, parents will spend thousands of rupees to help them.
Since 1970, the international community has managed to vaccinate most of the world’s children against measles, tetanus, whooping cough, diphtheria, and polio.
I remember working at a pediatric ward as a teenager and watching children die from diseases like polio, measles, and tetanus – all easily prevented by vaccines.
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