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2000</ref>. Historical examples of successful vaccination programs include those for smallpox and polio. Recently, vaccines have been used to deal with sexually transmitted diseases such as the [[HPV]] virus. Some Christian groups have objected to the use of such vaccines since they could potentially encourage promiscuity in chidren.
2000</ref>. Historical examples of successful vaccination programs include those for smallpox and polio. Recently, vaccines have been used to deal with sexually transmitted diseases such as the [[HPV]] virus. Some Christian groups have objected to the use of such vaccines since they could potentially encourage promiscuity in chidren.
Since doctors began using vaccines, however, many diseases have been curbed. [[Polio]], for example, killed over 3,000 people in the United States in 1952 [http://www.http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsus/VSUS_1952_2.pdf], and inflict such noted persons as President [[Franklin Delanor Roosevelt]], actor [[Alan Alda]], and musician [[Itzak Perlman]]. When doctors began using a vaccine to fight polio, it more or less erradicated the disease in the developed world.
Other diseases that have been curbed since the invention of vaccines include [[smallpox]] (previously a yearly killer of thousands worldwide), [[chicken pox]], [[measles]], [[mumps]], [[rubella]], and [[typhoid]]. Because these diseases were prevalent before the use of vaccines and rare afterwards, many people believe that vaccines may have something to do with preventing the diseases.
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