Many forget the damage done by diseases like whooping cough, measles and rubella. Not these families.
By LAURA UNGAR
Jun 28, 2025 4:01 pm
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In the time before widespread vaccination, death often came early. Devastating infectious diseases ran rampant in America, killing millions of children. Over the next century, vaccines virtually wiped out long-feared scourges like polio and measles. Today, however, some preventable, contagious diseases are making a comeback as vaccine hesitancy pushes immunization rates down.