08/13/2025 10:06:34 AMFor more than 200 years, vaccines have changed public health, turning deadly diseases like polio, measles, diphtheria, and smallpox into illnesses we can prevent or eliminate. The smallpox vaccine wiped out a disease that killed millions; polio, once a global threat, is now nearly gone thanks to coordinated vaccination campaigns, and the measles vaccine has prevented millions of deaths worldwide and continues to protect communities from dangerous outbreaks.Office of Communications & Marketing/var/staging/oucampus/suny-downstate/downstate/news-events/downstate-update/2025/august/08-13-immunization-awareness.xmlDownstate Health