Is this article accurate?

[littlec]

I don't have time right now to check it out thoroughly, but I thought maybe some of you would be interested in it. I know it's got me thinking about things I hadn't previously consdiered, but I don't konw how accurate the info is. Are the graphs correct? Also, what do you think of it overall? I'm hoping to hear from those who vaccinate and those who don't. :)

http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/graphs/ 

[NYMommy2007]

Not accurate.

[littlec]

Originally Posted by NYMommy2007 

Not accurate.

Care to elaborate when you get a chance?

[mamakay]

It's not really a controversial idea among epidemiologists that there was a great, vast drop in infant/child mortality from infectious diseases prevaccine. Improved food reliability and clean water, etc matter a LOT.

The question is whether or not, say, 400 measles deaths a year are worth preventing. In spite of that fact that measles killed thousands of kids a year long before the vaccine.

[mamakay]

But if the point of the article is to show the reader that we've been fed a load of horsepoo about the prevax threat from infectious diseases, then I can stand behind that.

I think vaccines are useful, lifesaving technology sometimes, but they aren't what saved society from 1890-type infectious disease risks and stats.