While many of us can thank God that our children are not likely to die from flu, diphtheria, or polio, or even suffer the mumps, measles, or
rubella because of advances in medicine, we must be mindful of the enormous number of children and adults in this country and abroad who are forced to live as if these advances were never made.
Not exact matches
Most of the 220 Americans who caught measles in 2011 fell ill
because they had not received the MMR (measles, mumps, and
rubella) vaccine and had either traveled to a region that has endemic measles, such as parts of Europe, or come into contact with someone who had been traveling.
Measles, mumps, and
rubella are essentially diseases of the past (at least in the United States)
because our children are vaccinated at an early age.