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Takeaways from interviews with families forever changed by diseases that vaccines can prevent
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Katie Van Tornhout sits with her son, Cain, at home in Lakeville, Ind., on May 7, 2025. - photo by AP Photo/Shelby Lum
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — In the time before widespread vaccination, devastating infectious diseases ran rampant in America, killing millions of children and leaving others with lifelong health problems. Over the next century, vaccines virtually wiped out long-feared scourges like polio and measles and drastically reduced the toll of many others.