Catharine Young, Senior Fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, shared a post on X:
“Measles can cause brain swelling and erase immune memory.
Influenza can trigger heart attacks and pneumonia.
COVID can damage lungs, heart, brain, and blood vessels.
HPV causes multiple cancers.
Hepatitis leads to liver failure and cancer.
Prevention saves lives.
Measles: described ~900 BC. Vaccine introduced 1963.
Influenza: described 412 BC. Vaccine introduced 1940s.
Hepatitis (viral jaundice): described ~400 BC. Hep B vaccine 1981; Hep A vaccine 1995.
HPV: genital warts described ~300 BC Vaccine introduced 2006.
COVID-19: identified 2019. Vaccines introduced 2020.”
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