Our Life-Saving Vaccines cartoon illustrates four invaluable vaccines that have affected human civilization throughout history from smallpox and influenza to the development of a measles vaccine and a cure for polio, a disease that previously paralyzed or killed over half a million people worldwide every year from 1940-1950.

There is a reason why these vaccinations are required in childhood: They prevent suffering and death, and the virus never really goes away; it will always return when you lease expect it.

Published Oct. 29, 2021.