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Infectious Disease: Evolving Challenges to Human Health
VACCINES & HUMAN IMMUNITY

Candidates for Eradication

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Based on the successful smallpox eradication effort, other diseases that depend on human-to-human transmission could be targeted for potential eradication including measles, polio, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), and tuberculosis.

Visitors using the vaccine display.

Can You Eradicate Disease with Vaccination?

Explore the impact of vaccines on disease spread in an American city at the Koshland Science Museum.


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Can We Eradicate Polio? [next]

 

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