Although medical science has advanced immeasurably in the last century , many preventable diseases still arrogate lives due to unable vaccination programs . This mapshows when and where that materialise .
The Council of Foreign Relations Global Health Program begin tracking vaccinum - preventable disease outbreaks in 2008 , and now it ’s produce aninteractive single-valued function that visualizes the data . The maps show the known number of show cases of disease like measles , mumps , whooping cough and more — all preventable by inoculation — which occurred between 2008 and 2014 .
While there are understandably many instances of disease outbreaks in arise countries — the bulk a result of the unavailability of the MMR vaccine , asthe LA Times points out — there are also a surprising number in developed region . Pertussis — whoop cough to those unfortunate enough to know it well — was rife in the US over the six eld of datum aggregation , with the state of California alone account 10,000 cases of the disease between 2011 and 2013 . There were standardised outbreaks across the rest of the US , and even in the UK and Australia .
You could exact that the map is inherently bias : it is , after all , built up from data amass from outside word , which mean that more cases may well go reported in developed rural area . But even so , the prevalence of some preventable diseases in the highly-developed globe is more than a picayune shocking , and one ca n’t aid but think that anti - vaccination movements are at least partly responsible . Regardless , you shouldgo research the mathematical function . [ CFRviaLA TimesviaVerge ]
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