An estimated 1.4 children under five years of age die unnecessarily each year from measles, whooping cough or tetanus, all of them preventable with vaccines, the U.N. Children’s Fund, UNICEF, reported on September 29, 2005. While the 1980s showed a surge in vaccination programs around the world, progress remained even or dropped in the 1990s, partly because of a decrease in foreign aid as well as worsening economies in several countries.

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