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We have continued to see meaningful reductions in infant mortality and malnutrition, and there have been massive strides toward eradication of polio, measles, malaria, and illiteracy.
It increases susceptibility to common childhood infections such as
measles
and diarrheal diseases, and is the single most important cause of childhood blindness in developing countries.
This astounding accomplishment has played a key role in leading various national and international governments and organizations, including the WHO, Rotary International, and the Gates Foundation, to mount efforts to eradicate many other infectious diseases, such as measles, malaria, and polio.
I was also given vaccines to prevent life-threatening infections such as polio and
measles.
The size of the challenges that we face was made clear at the beginning of this year, when a
measles
outbreak killed more than 300 children in Pakistan – most of whom had not received vaccines.
There is no excuse for millions of deaths from malaria, AIDS, TB, polio, measles, diarrhea, or respiratory infections, or for so many women and infants to die in or after childbirth.
Progress has been made in reducing malaria and measles, and the rate of child mortality has fallen partly as a result, but the goal of a two-thirds reduction will not be met.
Extreme poverty kills, through inadequate food and diseases like malaria, measles, and diarrhea.
For example, even as late as 1970, only around 5% of infants were vaccinated against measles, tetanus, whooping cough, diphtheria, and polio.
In the late 1990s, anti-vaccine sentiment manifested itself in a backlash against the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine.
As a result, in some areas, community-wide “herd” immunity levels for diseases like
measles
and pertussis (whooping cough) have fallen below those necessary to keep them from spreading into the general population.
In developing countries, 200-300 million preschool children are at risk of vitamin A deficiency, which compromises immune systems, increasing the body’s susceptibility to illnesses like
measles
and diarrheal diseases.
The daily deaths of children in poor countries from diarrhea, measles, and malaria are part of the background of the world we live in, and so are not news at all.
The people who contributed to this drop by delivering effective basic health care, building a supply of safe water, or immunizing children against
measles
remain largely unknown.
As a result, thousands of children died each year from preventable diseases such as measles, polio, and malaria.
Development assistance has enabled the creation of community-based health programs, and played a key role in supporting the development and deployment of the vaccines, mosquito nets, and medical treatments that have cut child deaths from the major killer infectious diseases – pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, and
measles
– by some 70% since 2000.
Such behavior would lead people to ask: “In a world in which more than six million children die each year because they lack safe drinking water or mosquito nets, or because they have not been immunized against measles, couldn’t you find something better to do with your money?”
Programs must be tailored to address diseases like measles, hepatitis A, leishmaniasis, poliomyelitis, and meningitis, all of which are on the rise in Syria and in refugee camps.
We may not have the equivalent of a vaccine for
measles
or a bed net for malaria, but low-cost, highly effective interventions are possible for most people either at risk for, or already suffering from, a mental illness.
The resurgence is of the
measles
– a disease that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared eradicated in 2000, thanks to a highly effective and safe vaccine.
Since 2000,
measles
cases in the US have been attributed largely to travelers bringing the disease into the country.
In recent years, however,
measles
has become increasingly common, with the number of cases climbing above 150 in 2013, and then jumping to 644 last year – the most cases recorded in a single year since the late 1990s.
Measles
may have a lower mortality rate than Ebola, but its potential to inflict suffering and death – especially on young children – remains considerable.
Indeed, before vaccination made
measles
a rarity, the disease was widely feared, killing thousands of children every year.
As the number of people who have witnessed firsthand the effects of
measles
and other childhood diseases – such as mumps, rubella, polio, and whooping cough – has declined, so has society’s commitment to keeping them away.
Andrew Wakefield first claimed that there was a relationship between the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and autism in 1998.
This has contributed to the spread not only of measles, but also of whooping cough and mumps.
Science- and engineering-based solutions to global challenges have also sparked major innovations, such as the Green Revolution, which tackled the devastation caused by wheat rust, and pioneering immunization techniques that dramatically reduced the spread of
measles
and polio.
These precarious conditions have allowed the reemergence of long-dormant diseases such as malaria, diphtheria, measles, and tuberculosis.
In the 1950’s, a breakthrough that enabled viruses to grow in tissue cultures led to the development of both live attenuated vaccines and inactivated vaccines for measles, polio, and other diseases.
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