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Vaccines & Infectious Disease
Learn about the gains made in public health through the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. Explore how the development and use of newer vaccine technology helps fight against infectious diseases that had been previously difficult to vaccinate against. Discover how vaccines have reduced the threat of diseases and were once widespread and oftentimes fatal.
The Value of Vaccines in Disease Prevention: Value of Medicines Pfizer
The Value of Antibiotics in Treating Infectious Diseases: Value of Medicines Pfizer
In the early 1900s one of the major global health threats was infectious diseases associated with poor hygiene and poor sanitation. No medical advances have been acknowledged as more important than the development of vaccines and antibiotics during the early and mid – twentieth century.
The Value of Vaccines in Preventing and Combating Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR): Value of Medicines Pfizer
Antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, is a significant public health problem affecting all areas of the world—negatively impacting millions of people and costing billions of dollars. In the United States alone each year, the CDC estimates that AMR bacteria cause at least 2 million infections and result in 23,000 deaths.