According to a study by the World Health Organization (WHO), vaccinations have saved 154 million people over the past fifty years, including 146 million children under the age of five. That corresponds to six people being saved from death every minute, the WHO reported in Geneva on Wednesday. The measles vaccine had the greatest benefit. 60 percent of the people who were saved owed their lives to him.
In total, vaccines against fourteen diseases have reduced infant mortality worldwide by 40 percent. The diseases include diphtheria, polio, tetanus and whooping cough. “Vaccines are among the most effective inventions in history, preventing once-feared diseases,” said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
84 of the babies were vaccinated
Fifty years ago, less than five percent of babies worldwide were routinely vaccinated against diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough. Today that is 84 percent, reports the WHO.
Measles is a viral infectious disease that can be life-threatening. The vaccination protects against this. The number of outbreaks is currently increasing worldwide because the necessary vaccination protection is still too low for the entire population in many places. For this to happen, 95 percent or more of people would have to have received two doses of the vaccine. The value currently stands at 83 percent for the first and 74 percent for the second dose of vaccination. By 2022, almost 22 million babies would not have received the first dose and eleven million babies would have missed the second dose. According to WHO estimates, 136,000 people died from measles that year, mostly children under the age of five.
Source: Krone
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