7. Didn't vaccines get rid of acute infectious childhood diseases?



Deaths from acute infectious diseases had been dropping dramatically (as much as 98%) before the vaccines were in general public distribution. The rate of the decrease did not change after the vaccines were introduced. As the renowned sociologist Ivan Illich, Ph.D. writes in his classic Medical Nemesis (New York: Bantam Books 1976 Chapter 1 The Epidemics of Modern Medicine):

The combined death rate from scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough, and measles among children up to fifteen shows that nearly 90% of the total decline in mortality between 1860 and 1965 had occurred before the introduction of antibiotics and widespread immunization. In part this recession may be attributed to improved housing and to a decrease in the virulence of microorganisms, but by far the most important factor was a higher host resistance due to better nutrition. In poor countries today, diarrhea and upper-respiratory-tract infections occur more frequently last longer, and lead to higher mortality where nutrition is poor, no matter how much or how little medical care is available.

When vaccines are introduced, statistics are sometimes manipulated to artificially decrease the number of reported cases for a disease. When the whooping cough vaccine became widely distributed, physicians tended to stop diagnosing whooping cough in their patients. It is estimated that only 10% of whooping cough cases are ever diagnosed. This creates the illusion of effectiveness.


 

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