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Why do we keep giving vaccines if the number of cases of the vaccine-preventable diseases are at a record low in the United States?

April 26, 2017cases diseases giving low record united states vaccine-preventable vaccines

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Why do we keep giving vaccines if the number of cases of the vaccine-preventable diseases are at a record low in the United States?

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Vaccine-preventable diseases are indeed infrequent in the United States because of the success of the vaccine program. However, if people start to not take the vaccine, these diseases will come back rapidly. This occurred with measles in the early 1990s and resulted in many deaths.