Reliable Vaccine Information

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An article purporting to "prove" that vaccines have not lead to a decrease in infectious disease was posted on another thread. I object to the title of the thread, "Flawed, mandatory vaccine" etc. so I am not going to follow up on that thread. The article by Heidi Stevenson used a graph from a 1999 JAMA magazine article to try to show that vaccines are ineffective. This was very misleading, as the original article in JAMA had no such conclusion! The graph mixed in numerous diseases, so the impact of individual vaccines was blunted. Also, AIDs deaths had caused an uptick in the 1980's. Go read the original article, not Stevenson's fanciful interpretation of the graph.
There are plenty of graphs showing a direct link with the start of population vaccination and the rapid drop-off in disease...for polio, measles, mumps, pertussis, etc. Also, we see 'accidental experiments' all over the world in which populations avoid the vaccine, and then an outbreak occurs...

The majority of recent cases of tetanus among children in the United States were in unvaccinated children whose parents objected to vaccination. Parents who choose not to vaccinate their children should be advised of the seriousness of the disease and be informed that tetanus is not preventable by means other than vaccination.
Philosophic Objection to Vaccination as a Risk for Tetanus Among Children Younger Than 15 Years -- Fair et al. 109 (1): e2 -- Pediatrics

Measles Outbreak Spreads to 15 States, Largest in 10 Years
Thursday, July 10, 2008
At least 127 people in 15 states have come down with the measles, the biggest outbreak in the United States in more than 10 years, Reuters reported.
Cases started springing up in May, when more than 70 people in a dozen states became ill. According to federal health officials, most of the victims were not vaccinated against the highly contagious virus.
In a statement, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the outbreak has been traced to travelers who became sick overseas, returned to the United States and infected others.
Last month British health officials said measles had become an epidemic in that country for the first time since the mid-1990s due to parents not getting their children vaccinated.
"With the whole debate about vaccines — and now parents due to their personal beliefs not vaccinating their children — what we are seeing now is that we are going to have these epidemic outbreaks throughout the country," said Dr. Manny Alvarez, managing editor of health at FOXNews.com.
"If this continues, we will see outbreaks throughout the entire developed world — something we have never seen before," he added.
Measles Outbreak Spreads to 15 States, Largest in 10 Years - Health News | Current Health News | Medical News - FOXNews.com

Over 1470 cases of mumps have been notified
in Ireland in the first three months of this year,
a sixteen fold increase compared with the same
time period in 2008.
https://www.ndsc.ie/hpsc/EPI-Insight...le,3543,en.pdf