“Diseases prevented, lives saved, sequelae avoided, increased health, people’s well-being, greater life expectancy, control of infectious diseases, all of that is vaccines,” explained Dr. Ismael Francisco Herrera Benavente, director of the Faculty of Medicine of the UASLP.
The pediatrician and infectious disease expert also pointed out that the scientific contribution of vaccines gives hope of having more tools for the future, “it is not only a decrease in morbidity and mortality, it is the reduction in health and social gaps worldwide. It is a strategy that is on par with hand washing and drinking water.”
He also said that vaccination is the most cost-effective and successful public health strategy throughout human history, “but we also know that although it is a great public health tool it is at the same time one of the biggest medical debates we have.”
