Childhood diseases? They're not even that serious!!!!11!!
My doom and gloom series...Why I Vax
Measles:
30 Million cases in underdeveloped areas, 745,000 deaths. 2001.
Kills 410,000 children under the age of 5 every year.
Before routine vaccinations, 5% of measles patients would die.
30% of reported cases will have complications.
6% will get pneumonia, the leading cause of death (60%) associated with the measles complications.
0.1% will get acute encephalitis, and 15% of that 0.1% will die. 25% of that 0.1% will have lasting neurological damage.
Death from measles: 0.2% of cases in US between 1985-1992
If a million children got measles, about 1,000 of them would get encephalitis, 6,000 to 7,000 would have convulsions, and several hundred would die.
Leading cause of blindness in African children.
More severe in malnourished children--death rate of up to 25%.
Resurgance in measles in 1989-1991 caused by low vaccination rates in particular population--90% of the deaths were in people with no history of vaccination.
reactions to the vaccine: joint pain--25% (in women). Fever--5-15%, rash, 5%, low platelet count 1 in 30,000
93% of children in the US are vaccinated. (How many of those died from the vaccine? None of the anti-vax sites will give a concrete number).
http://www.cdc.gov/nip/publications/pink/meas.pdf
and other cdc documents.
And did the vaccine really make a difference or was it already on the decline?
The largest measles related deaths reduction occurred in Africa, the region with the highest burden of the disease, where estimated measles cases and deaths dropped by 60%...all over a course of 5 years, during which time sanitation and other healthcare did not improve--the only change was the use of the vaccine.
(measlesinitiative.org)
(side note--in trying to find info for the other side--the anti vax side, I came across the "thinktwice.com" site that is supposedly all about the negative reactions to vaccines...however, instead of numbers, it only had a list of anecdotes from people who claim their child had a reaction. That's not science, that's hearsay.
http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/antivaccination_hysteria/index.html Worth a read, no matter which side you're on.
Measles:
30 Million cases in underdeveloped areas, 745,000 deaths. 2001.
Kills 410,000 children under the age of 5 every year.
Before routine vaccinations, 5% of measles patients would die.
30% of reported cases will have complications.
6% will get pneumonia, the leading cause of death (60%) associated with the measles complications.
0.1% will get acute encephalitis, and 15% of that 0.1% will die. 25% of that 0.1% will have lasting neurological damage.
Death from measles: 0.2% of cases in US between 1985-1992
If a million children got measles, about 1,000 of them would get encephalitis, 6,000 to 7,000 would have convulsions, and several hundred would die.
Leading cause of blindness in African children.
More severe in malnourished children--death rate of up to 25%.
Resurgance in measles in 1989-1991 caused by low vaccination rates in particular population--90% of the deaths were in people with no history of vaccination.
reactions to the vaccine: joint pain--25% (in women). Fever--5-15%, rash, 5%, low platelet count 1 in 30,000
93% of children in the US are vaccinated. (How many of those died from the vaccine? None of the anti-vax sites will give a concrete number).
http://www.cdc.gov/nip/publications/pink/meas.pdf
and other cdc documents.
And did the vaccine really make a difference or was it already on the decline?
The largest measles related deaths reduction occurred in Africa, the region with the highest burden of the disease, where estimated measles cases and deaths dropped by 60%...all over a course of 5 years, during which time sanitation and other healthcare did not improve--the only change was the use of the vaccine.
(measlesinitiative.org)
(side note--in trying to find info for the other side--the anti vax side, I came across the "thinktwice.com" site that is supposedly all about the negative reactions to vaccines...however, instead of numbers, it only had a list of anecdotes from people who claim their child had a reaction. That's not science, that's hearsay.
http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/antivaccination_hysteria/index.html Worth a read, no matter which side you're on.