Just in case anyone has any doubts as to the dangers of not immunizing, here are cold hard numbers. These numbers should show several important things. First of all, when we have vaccines, fewer people DIE. Not only that, but each of those deaths are not just numbers, they are individual human beings that once a reliable vaccine is available SHOULD have been able to live a full life.  

 

 

Numbers from http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/appdx-full-g.pdf ...
 

This is for pertussis:

Year	Cases	DEATHS	Year	Cases	DEATHS
2000	7867	12	1950	120718	1118
2001	7580	17	1951	68687	951
2002	9771	18	1952	45030	402
2003	11647	11	1953	37129	270
2004	25827	27	1954	60886	373
2005	25616	39	1955	62786	467
2006	15632	16	1956	31732	266
TOTAL	103940	140		426968	3847

The death figures for 2004 through 2006 are from this slide set:
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/Slides/Pertussis11.ppt#9 ... Slide 9. Of the 82 deaths from pertussis during 2004 through 2006, 69 were of infants under the age of three months, while the remaining 13 were older than three months.

 

For more information check out the slide information:
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/Slides/Pertussis11.ppt
From the 9th slide:

Pertussis Deaths in the United States, 2004-2006
	Age at onset
Year	<3 mos	>3 mos	Total
2004	24	3	27
2005	32	7	39
2006	13	3	16
Total	69	13	82
	(84%)	(16%)

 

Now for tetanus:

Year	Cases	DEATHS	Year	Cases	DEATHS
2000	35	5	1950	486	336
2001	37	5	1951	506	394
2002	25	5	1952	484	360
2003	20	4	1953	506	337
2004	34	NA	1954	524	332
2005	27	NA	1955	462	265
2006	41	NA	1956	468	246
TOTAL	219	19 (or more)		3436	2270

 

 

Now for measles:

Year	Cases	DEATHS	Year	Cases	DEATHS
2000	86	1	1950	319124	486
2001	116	1	1951	530118	683
2002	44	0	1952	683077	618
2003	56	1	1953	449146	462
2004	37	NA	1954	682720	518
2005	66	NA	1955	555156	345
2006	55	NA	1956	611966	530
TOTAL	460	3 (or more)		3,831,277	3624

 

 

Now for mumps (no data before 1960):

Year	Cases	DEATHS
2000	338	2
2001	266	0
2002	270	1
2003	231	0
2004	258	NA
2005	314	NA
2006	6584	NA
TOTALS	8261	3 (or more)

 

 

Total of cases of those four disease over the seven year period of 2000 though 2006 is 112880, with at least 165 deaths. This does not include the 16 cases of Congenital Rubella Syndrome listed in the table for the years 2000 through 2006.

 

Now if we went your way and eliminated the DTaP and the MMR then we will go back to the numbers that are listed for the 1950s (the return of pertussis is already happening, and measles and mumps have returned to Japan and the UK, the USA is not far behind). The number of measles cases were in the millions for the seven year period fifty years ago, with deaths of over 3500. During the years 1950 to 1956 for the three diseases that there is data, the total cases were 4261681 with at least 9741 deaths. And I left out polio.
 

 

So do we really want to go back to the "good ol' days" of no DTaP or MMR vaccines?

 

 

 

Disease: Measles in the USA

 

Year	Cases	DEATHS
1950	319124	486
1951	530118	683
1952	683077	618
1953	449146	462
1954	682720	518
1955	555156	345
1956	611963	530
1957	486779	389
1958	763094	552
1959	406162	385
1960	441703	380
1961	423919	434
1962	481530	408
1963	385156	364
First vaccine licensed
1964	458083	421
1965	261905	276
1966	204136	261
1967	62705	81
1968	22231	24
1969	25826	41
1970	47351	89
1971	75290	90
MMR vaccine licensed
1972	32275	24
1973	26690	23
1974	22960	20
1975	24374	20
1976	41126	12
1977	57245	15
1978	26871	11
Measels elimination program started
1979	13597	6
1980	13506	11
1981	2124	2
1982	1714	4
1983	1497	1
1984	2587	1
1985	2822	2
1986	6282	2
1987	3655	2
1988	3396	3
1989	18193	32
1990	27786	64
1991	9643	27
1992	2237	4
1993	312	0
1994	963	0
1995	309	2
1996	508	1
1997	138	2
1998	100	0
1999	100	2
2000	86	1
2001	116	1
2002	44	0
2003	56	1
2004	37	NA
2005	66	NA
2006	55	NA

 

(The links for 1989 to 1991 shows what happens when measels coverage is reduced!)

 

Anyway, about the silly "money trail"… Which makes more money for "Big Pharma": selling vaccines or by providing supplies and medication to hospitals for those who have been hospitalized due to pertussis, measles, mumps, Hib, etc? Be sure to provide real actual factual evidence of the type I can find in my local medical school library. Something like this: Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2005 Dec;159(12):1136-44. Economic evaluation of the 7-vaccine routine childhood immunization schedule in the United States, 2001.

"RESULTS: Routine childhood immunization with the 7 vaccines was cost saving from the direct cost and societal perspectives, with net savings of 9.9 billion dollars and 43.3 billion dollars, respectively. Without routine vaccination, direct and societal costs of diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, H influenzae type b, poliomyelitis, measles, mumps, rubella, congenital rubella syndrome, hepatitis B, and varicella would be 12.3 billion dollars and 46.6 billion dollars, respectively. Direct and societal costs for the vaccination program were an estimated 2.3 billion dollars and 2.8 billion dollars, respectively. Direct and societal benefit-cost ratios for routine childhood vaccination were 5.3 and 16.5, respectively. CONCLUSION: Regardless of the perspective, the current routine childhood immunization schedule results in substantial cost savings."

 

Links to support with actual DATA!

The economic study: http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/159/12/1136
The California experience with the 1990 measles epidemic: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=8855680
Another study on the impact of medical interventions on mental retardation, it notes the effect of measles, Hib an rubella: http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/160/3/302
The CDC Pink Book: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/default.htm
And the Appendix G: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/appdx-full-g.pdf  

 

 

Just the cases and deaths: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/G/cases&deaths.pdf

 

 

The science has been done, the link between vaccines and autism does not exist. It is a dead link! Its not pinin'! Its passed on! This link is no more! It has ceased to be! Its expired and gone to meet its maker! Its a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it'd be pushing up the daisies! Its metabolic processes are now 'istory! It's off the twig! Its kicked the bucket, its shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-LINK!! (Hat-tip to Monty Python and the dead parrot sketch)