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[–] 18744889? ago 

Well, if there’s an incurable disease and the only way to prevent it would be by getting a vaccine, I don’t see how that could hurt you. Also, vaccinations were started in the 50s, it started decrease dramatically by the turn of the decade (I think some 50,000 people were infected every year in the 1950s and it decreased to only a few hundred in the 60s) and by the end of the 70s, it was already gone by then (the last few indigenous cases were in the early 70s, IIRC, it was only a few dozen cases a year by that time). Ever since, there was only one case that happened in 1995 that was imported from Pakistan. Which is funny because the Taliban has been attacking health workers because of their retarded anti-vaccine beliefs, which is precisely why Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only two countries in the world where polio is still endemic.

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[–] 18744908? ago 

It started to reduce far before the vaccine was being used.

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[–] 18763244? ago 

It started to reduce far before the vaccine was being used.

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[–] 18751072? ago 

Big if true.

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Sure cleanliness can also help prevent the spread of disease, but so can vaccines. The bubonic plague today can easily be cured by getting antibiotics, but in England and across Europe it was a death sentence to whoever got it. Isn’t it great that the advancements in modern medicine turned what was once humanity’s greatest killer into a curable ailment? Even if you used sanitation, there are still people that die of the Bubonic plague to this day in America. It’s rare, but it’s not non-existent.