Current Paediatrics
Volume 11, Issue 6 , Pages 433-437, December 2001

The current status of vaccine-preventable infections

  • D.A.C. Elliman (Consultant in Community Child Health)

      Affiliations

    • Department of Child Health, St George's Hospital, Tooting, London, SW17 OQT, UK
    • ,
  • H.E. Bedford (Senior Research Fellow)

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, WC1 1EH, UK

Abstract 

The introduction of effective vaccines against an increasing number of infectious diseases has had a major impact on the mortality and morbidity of many diseases. Small pox has already been eradicated and the eradication of polio is in sight. However, it is important that people do not forget the suffering that these conditions may cause, otherwise immunization rates may fall with a concomitant re-emergence of the diseases.

Keywords: vaccination, infectious diseases, BCG, MMR, tetanus diphtheria, Hib meningococcal disease, congenital rubella syndrome, measles, mumps pertussis, small pox

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  • f1 Correspondence to: DACE. Tel: 020 8725 3726; fax: 020 8725 0598. E-mail: DavidElliman@compuserve.com

PII: S0957-5839(01)90231-3

doi:10.1054/cupe.2001.0231

Current Paediatrics
Volume 11, Issue 6 , Pages 433-437, December 2001

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