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It's unlikely, as most vaccine-preventable infections were diseases of childhood, so any selective pressure they put on other things in your body would take pla
by Fomite 13y ago
It's unlikely, as most vaccine-preventable infections were diseases of childhood, so any selective pressure they put on other things in your body would take place well before most cancers develop.
It is however mathematically certain that the prevention of deaths from infectious diseases will drive up rates of death from other causes, as we have to die of something - the only question is what.