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Vaccines, new opportunities for a new society

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Rappuoli, Rino, Pizza, Mariagrazia, Del Giudice, Giuseppe, De Gregorio, Ennio·2014·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Vaccination is the most effective medical intervention ever introduced and, together with clean water and sanitation, it has eliminated a large part of the infectious diseases that once killed millions of people. A recent study concluded that since 1924 in the United States alone, vaccines have prevented 40 million cases of diphtheria, 35 million cases of measles, and a total of 103 million cases of childhood diseases. A report from the World Health Organization states that today vaccines prevent 2.5 million deaths per year: Every minute five lives are saved by vaccines worldwide. Overall, vaccines have done and continue to do an excellent job in eliminating or reducing the impact of childhood diseases. Furthermore, thanks to new technologies, vaccines now have the potential to make an enormous contribution to the health of modern society by preventing and treating not only communicable diseases in all ages, but also noncommunicable diseases such as cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. The achievement of these results requires the development of novel technologies and health economic models able to capture not only the mere cost–benefit of vaccination, but also the value of health per se.

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Authors
Rappuoli, R., Pizza, M., Del Giudice, G., & De Gregorio, E.
Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Published
2014-08-18
Volume
111
Issue
34
Pages
12288-12293
ISSN
  • 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
  • 1091-6490
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W2051913120
Cited by
335
References
9
FWCI
50.82
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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Rappuoli, R., Pizza, M., Del Giudice, G., & De Gregorio, E. (2014). Vaccines, new opportunities for a new society. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1402981111

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