Vaccines are a cure for the disease

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The world was shocked last year by the massive spread of measles in several countries, from the east of the Mediterranean to Europe to the Americas, where the number of victims in the United 000 deaths, While the vaccine industry has reached a very advanced stage, many have wondered why all these people had died of a controlled virus. The same response from WHO indicated that the spread of false news and myths linking children's access to vaccines and autism to an increase in the number of measles cases was 30% in the world between 2016 and 2017. Surprisingly, the decline in the demand for measles immunization in Western countries in recent decades is due to an article published by the British doctor Andrew Wakfield in the Lancet 1997, in which he stated that the MMR vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella caused an increase in autism between British children, despite the denial of several subsequent scientific studies, and the withdrawal of the newspaper from its article, as well as the removal from the list of the Royal Association of Physicians, his views remain topical due to the rapid spread via social networking platforms.

The spread of measles plaques in the world's most developed cities has called for real efforts on the part of dozens of scientists to invent vaccines throughout history and saved millions of lives. The French biologist Louis Pasteur is the inventor of vaccines, the discovery of pasteurization, while the English physician Edward Jenner, the first discovery of the smallpox vaccine, most of the diseases that have affected humankind since centuries, and his research has been at the origin of what is now called "immunology". .

It is not clear exactly when smallpox is at the origin of smallpox, but it is very likely that it spreads to the tenth millennium BC, the time of the first agricultural colonization of northeastern Africa, and would have spread to Asia through commercial convoys. According to a recent study conducted on the mummy of Pharaoh Ramses V to the disease, which left a sharp revolution on his face. Smallpox arrived in Europe between the fifth and seventh century AD and caused a wave of epidemics in the Middle Ages, killing more than 7 million people. Due to the subsequent expansion of the colonial movement, the disease spreads deadly, making one in three deaths, until Jenner reaches his miracle miracle of 1796, but he is the first to launch the vaccination. Today, vaccines account for 15% of the global pharmaceutical industry and prevent preventably thousands of infections by various viruses, ranging from AIDS to seasonal flu.