Vaccines: focus on adults - Summa Health System

The wars of the world: Saving livesthrough vaccinationDW Kimberlin Inf Dis News. Aug 1, 2011• Without the safe and effective vaccines that wetoo often take for granted now, more than 300million who lived full and rewarding lives duringthe 20th century would have died prematurelyof a vaccine-preventable disease. Compare thiswith the 160 million estimated to have beenkilled in all wars combined during the samecentury. Stated another way, vaccines savedtwice as many lives as were lost in war duringthe most destructive 100 years in humanhistory.