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What a cute little face
It's a girl!
[Clapping] She's beautiful!
A new life begins.
Out of her mothers womb
Rachel Murphy is now surrounded by a new world
filled with countless germs.
Modern medicine will do what it can to protect her.
Barley an hour old
Rachel gets her first shot
against Hepatitis B
This is the first of up to 35 inoculations
she will get in the next six years of her life
to fight 14 diseases
public health doctors celebrate vaccines
as one of medicine's shining achievements.
They have increased our lifespan by
30 years. It would cause 20 to 25
thousand cases a year gone
I mean polio would paralyze tens of thousands of people. Gone!
Diphtheria was the most common
killer of teenagers
in the 1920's. Gone!
I mean vaccines
the benefit of vaccines
is clear. There is now
16 diseases that are preventable by vaccination for children.
14 of those
are diseased that we vaccinated infants and young children
