This article challenges the commonly accepted belief that vaccines were the sole reason for eradicating infectious diseases like smallpox and polio. If we take a closer look, we’ll find that mortality rates for diseases such as smallpox, whooping cough, and measles were already declining significantly before vaccines were even introduced. It seems that improvements in sanitation, nutrition, and living conditions played a major role in reducing disease mortality rates.
Now that we see there were other factors involved in disease eradication, it’s worth questioning whether the risks of modern vaccines outweigh the benefits.
