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Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines The number of infected people, measured over 70 years across all states & DC, generally declined after vaccines were introduced The heat maps below show number of cases per 100,000 people graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

he number of infected people, measured over 70-some years and across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, generally declined after vaccines were introduced. The heat maps below show number of cases per 100,000 people. Measles Vaccine introduced 0k 1k 2k 3k 4k 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 Alaska Ala. Ark. Ariz. Calif. Colo. Conn. D.C. Del. Fla. Ga. Hawaii Iowa Idaho Ill. Ind. Kan. Ky. La. Mass. Md. Maine Mich. Minn. Mo. Miss. Mont. N.C. N.D. Neb. N.H. N.J. N.M Nev. N.Y. Ohio Okla. Ore. Pa. R.I. S.C. S.D. Tenn. Texas Utah Va. Vt. Wash. Wis. W.Va. Wyo. Idaho2001: 0.15 Note: CDC data from 2003-2012 comes from its Summary of Notifiable Diseases, which publishes yearly rather than weekly and counts confirmed cases as opposed to provisional ones. Polio Vaccine introduced 0 50 100 150 200 1930 1935 1940 1945 1950 1955 1960 1965 Alaska Ala. Ark. Ariz. Calif. Colo. Conn. D.C. Del. Fla. Ga. Hawaii Iowa Idaho Ill. Ind. Kan. Ky. La. Mass. Md. Maine Mich. Minn. Mo. Miss. Mont. N.C. N.D. Neb. N.H. N.J. N.M Nev. N.Y. Ohio Okla. Ore. Pa. R.I. S.C. S.D. Tenn. Texas Utah Va. Vt. Wash. Wis. W.Va. Wyo. Del.1965: N/A Smallpox 0 50 100 150 200 250 1928 1930 1932 1934 1936 1938 1940 1942 1944 1946 1948 1950 1952 Alaska Ala. Ark. Ariz. Calif. Colo. Conn. D.C. Del. Fla. Ga. Hawaii Iowa Idaho Ill. Ind. Kan. Ky. La. Mass. Md. Maine Mich. Minn. Mo. Miss. Mont. N.C. N.D. Neb. N.H. N.J. N.M Nev. N.Y. Ohio Okla. Ore. Pa. R.I. S.C. S.D. Tenn. Texas Utah Va. Vt. Wash. Wis. W.Va. Wyo. Conn.1952: N/A Note: The vaccine for smallpox was introduced in 1800.
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