The graph shows the impact of vaccinations on the incidence of whooping cough, a childhood illness, between 1940 and 1990 in Britain. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The graph is showing the impact of vaccinations on a childhood illness called whooping cough from 1940 to 1990 in Britain. Whooping cough, a disease which was severely affecting thousands of people in the 1940s almost got eradicated in the

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decade of the twentieth century

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the use of vaccination. A disease which already was an endemic

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had affected 60000 people and the situation went from bad to worse when the cases nearly tripled in a single year in 1945. In the initial years, the number of people being affected kept fluctuating but after 1950, the graph started increasing steadily. Soon after the introduction of a vaccine to

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endemic, somewhere in the middle of the 1950s, the line graph started going south. The number of cases immediately went down as the update of

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was at 81%. The chart shows a rise in the number of cases when

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vaccine uptake went down to 30%. But it was soon dealt with and disease was almost negligible

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of the twentieth century.