{"id":18331,"date":"2024-12-13T09:02:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T10:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18331"},"modified":"2024-12-13T10:29:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T10:29:45","slug":"six-childhood-scourges-weve-forgotten-about-thanks-to-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18331","title":{"rendered":"Six Childhood Scourges We\u2019ve Forgotten About, Thanks to Vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Most Americans, including doctors, have no memory of the devastating diseases that routinely threatened children until the 1960s.<\/p>\n

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Some of President-elect Donald J. Trump\u2019s picks for the government\u2019s top health posts have expressed skepticism about the safety of childhood vaccines. It\u2019s a sentiment shared by a growing number of parents, who are choosing to skip recommended shots for their children<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But while everyone seems to be talking about the potential side effects of vaccines, few are discussing the diseases they prevent. <\/p>\n

It has been half a century or more since many of the inoculations became routine in the United States, and the experience of having these illnesses has been largely erased from public memory. Questions today about the risk-benefit ratio of vaccines<\/a> might just be a product of the vaccines\u2019 own success.<\/p>\n

Here is what people should know about six once-common illnesses that vaccines have contained for decades.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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