States would get the measles each year. Then in 1963 a vaccination was found for the measles disease and severely helped stop the spread of the measles. "They're so effective, they take diseases like measles away” (Kathryn Edwards). Vaccines like this help save kids since back in 1953 when this disease spread like crazy and nearly all children got measles by the time they were 15 years of age. If we didn't have just the
Measles vaccine we would still have thousands of people yearly still getting