Vaccines for people. Using vaccines, we can now provide protection against at least 21 infectious diseases which would otherwise cause pain, suffering, lasting harm and/or death in people. Thus, the development, improvement and use of vaccines has resulted in the control, and in some cases the eradication, of numerous infectious diseases, including the following:

Anthrax
Chicken pox
Cholera
Diphtheria
German measles (rubella)
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis B
Influenza
Measles
Mumps
Pneumococcal pneumonia
Poliomyelitis
Rabies
Scarlet fever
Smallpox
Tetanus
Tuberculosis
Typhoid
Typhus
Whooping cough
Yellow fever