Scientific Sessions

Preventable Disease Vaccines

A vaccine-preventable disease is a communicable disease for which an effective preventive vaccine exists. If someone dies from a vaccine-preventable disease, the death is considered a vaccine-preventable death.

  • Diphtheria
  • Haemophilus influenzae serotype b disease
  • Meningitis
  • Tuberculosis
  • Yellow fever
  • Mumps
  • Measles