Vaccines have all but erased the memory of diseases like rubella. Not for this mom
Some Americans know the reality of vaccine-preventable diseases all too well. For them, news of measles outbreaks and rising whooping cough cases brings back terrible memories of lives forever changed – and a longing to spare others from similar pain.
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Before the vaccines, such illnesses were the main reason why nearly one in five children in 1900 never made it to their fifth birthday.
