"...the benefits of vaccination, like those of so many other scientific advances, often are taken for granted by the general public. Indeed, vaccines have become a victim of their own success in the developed world. Most people today have never seen an infant struggling to breathe because of whooping cough or lose the ability to walk because of polio. Why? Because vaccinations and successful public health campiagns have made many infectious diseases a mere afterthought. This complacency, though, leads people to falsely believe that most infectious diseases have 'gone away.' They have not." - Science Left Behind - Feel Good fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Science Left
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