Nearly 50,000 adults die in America each year from vaccine-preventable diseases.

The key information needed by public health staff charged with surveillance of vaccine-preventable diseases.

Among these vaccine-preventable diseases, which one kills the most people?

Vaccines are available for all of the following vaccine-preventable diseases (unless otherwise noted).

When the decade started, you had 12,000 children dying each day from vaccine-preventable diseases.

At the moment, one child every 20 seconds dies of a vaccine-preventable disease.

That 1.7 million children die from vaccine-preventable diseases every year makes the case.

Graphs for most other vaccine-preventable diseases show a similar pattern.

Every year, 1.5 million children under five die from vaccine-preventable diseases.

Yet each year three million people die from vaccine-preventable diseases.