Oh yes the media loves to spread fake stuff! :)
Is vaccination the only thing keeping us from cholera epidemics in North America? Or hookworm infections? Malaria? HIV? AIDS?
There's no vaccine for those yet. So clean water and sanitation combined with good health care practice keeps those from ravaging north America and it's news.
Dengue was hardly heard of here until a vaccine was approved, then dengue outbreaks in other countries was in the media spotlight to promote the shot. Now, however, we hear nothing of it because the approved vaccine is hurting people and the WHO curtailed it. So it's no longer a concerning disease here in North America. Clean water, sanitation and good health care practice is what's recommended to prevent and treat most diseases, and they don't get news coverage, until a vaccine comes out.
It's naive to say that vaccines are soley responsible for stopping huge epidemics, especially since there have been several incidences of populations with large epidemics of VPDs while they have over 95% vaccine coverage rates.