Lymphatic filariasis Elephantiasis polio measles mumps rubella and pork tapeworm. A whole host of other diseases have been wiped out or massively reduced thanks to vaccines such as pertussis whooping cough mumps rubella polio and diphtheria.

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There are also four ongoing programs targeting poliomyelitis yaws dracunculiasis and malaria.

What diseases have been eradicated by vaccines. The FAO of the UN played the major role in eliminating the disease. How Vaccines Eradicated Common Diseases by Niall McCarthy. Diphtheria bacterial influenza measles mumps rubella and tetanus among others.

First polio is not even a blip on the radar of anyone alive today. But with the help of vaccines smallpox has now been eradicated worldwide polio cases have been reduced by 99 per cent and measles infections have also drastically reduced. The virus spreads from person to person and can invade an infected persons brain and spinal cord causing paralysis.

Five more infectious diseases have been identified as of April 2008. But with the help of vaccines smallpox has now been eradicated worldwide polio cases have been reduced by 99 per cent and measles infections have also drastically reduced. The eradication of smallpox made headlines.

These diseases were nearly eradicated in the US. It was a viral disease that infected cattle and other ruminants. Two infectious diseases have successfully been eradicated.

See graph How is this possible. The Carter Center International Task Force for Disease Eradication has declared six additional diseases as potentially eradicable. The last case of Rinderpest was reported in 2001 and in 2011 the virus was officially deemed as eradicated.

The eradication of this dreaded disease that often crippled people and put many of them in iron lung machines has been one of the greatest victories of modern medicine according to the Mother Nature Network. Its also responsible for the first known vaccine created by the English. Vaccination which was discovered 200 years ago by a man named Edward Jenner is a significant event that has saved billions and trillions of lives.

2 Rinderpest a disease that affected livestock has also been eradicated largely due to vaccination. In fact some of the most prevalent diseases in the early 1900s including Tuberculosis TB Scarlet Fever and Typhoid followed the same declines WITHOUT ever having a vaccine program in the US. Polio symptoms include high fever paralysis and death.

Smallpox was a devastating disease that was highly contagious. Only one vaccine-preventable disease has actually been declared eradicated in the world smallpox in 1980. So far smallpox is the only human disease that has been completely eradicated by vaccines worldwide with the last known case happening in England in 1978.

Pertussis starts with symptoms similar to cold. Vaccines have been around for a long time and the first one is generally credited to Edward Jenner an English doctor who injected. 19 In the USA there has been a 99 decrease in incidence for the nine diseases for which vaccines have been recommended for decades 20 accompanied by a similar decline in mortality and disease sequelae.

The following are diseases that have been wiped out thanks to vaccines. Vaccination protects against these 14 diseases which used to be prevalent in the United States. Bettmann ArchiveGetty Images Smallpox is the only human disease that has been globally eradicated through vaccines.

Merely sharing bedding or face-to-face contact with an infected person could infect you. Vaccines have been instrumental in the elimination of these illnesses. A mild cough fever and stuffy nose.

Click below to enlarge. The World Health Organization made headlines this month for declaring vaccine hesitancy a reluctance or refusal to vaccinate despite the availability of. 4 Whooping Cough Also known as Pertussis whooping cough is a highly contagious disease but it is one of the most common vaccine-preventable diseases.

A review of the technical feasibility of eradicating other diseases preventable by vaccines currently licensed for civilian use in the United States indicates that measles hepatitis B mumps rubella and possibly disease caused by Haemophilus influenzae type b are potential candidates. The second vaccine-preventable disease to be eradicated will likely be polio. Ehreth estimates that vaccines annually prevent almost 6 million deaths worldwide.

In the United States a long list of diseases have been nearly eradicated by vaccines. Smallpox has also been eradicated worldwide. Rinderpest was also eradicated with vaccines but unlike smallpox rinderpest was a disease of livestock.

The vaccination of the animals using a live attenuated vaccine helped eliminate the disease from animal populations. Polio measles and rubella have all been eliminated in the United States. Here are eight diseases that have been wiped out by vaccines.

The second disease that has been successfully eradicated globally is the rinderpest disease. Without the population being vaccinated for them. Polio is a crippling and potentially deadly infectious disease that is caused by poliovirus.