...Richard A. Stein One of the most successful prophylactic interventions in the history of public health, vaccination helped control some of the deadliest and most debilitating infectious diseases. As a result of vaccination programs, smallpox was eradicated worldwide, poliomyelitis was nearly...

... use and overuse infectious diseases Infectious diseases were among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the 1900s, and tuberculosis and bacterial pneumonia were some of the most frequent causes of death during childhood ( Cohen, 1998 ). In 18th-century France, half of all children...