Vaccines are the most effective means to prevent infectious diseases and thus their complications. In Italy some vaccinations are compulsory for all children by specific laws (polio, diphtheria, tetanus and hepatitis B virus), others are recommended (pertussis, measles, mumps and rubella, Hemophiliac influenza type b). For diseases for which vaccination is compulsory and has reached a widespread diffusion of the epidemiological situation is excellent, diphtheria has virtually disappeared, cases of tetanus have been gradually decreasing and those that still occur for persons not vaccinated, polio was reduced to a minimum in the 70s, since 1983...
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