Doing research on Childhood Vaccination

[sea_joy]

Okay everybody,
I'm looking for a graph stating outbreaks of all the diseases I'm supposed to vaccinate my baby against. I remember seeing one somewhere but I can't find it again. I was startled at how few cases of these diseases there really were.
Does anyone have that info? I'm trying to do research on every vaccine/disease individually.
Thank you!
Crystal

[LongIsland]

I just want to clarify - do you mean the incidence rate, as opposed to "outbreak?"

[sea_joy]

I suppose so. When you get down to it I want to know what chances an unvaccinated child has of actually getting these diseases. I didn't really mean anything by using the word outbreak, sometimes we just fall back on the vocabulary the medical establishment/media has given us.

[LadyButler]

Originally Posted by sea_joy

I suppose so. When you get down to it I want to know what chances an unvaccinated child has of actually getting these diseases. I didn't really mean anything by using the word outbreak, sometimes we just fall back on the vocabulary the medical establishment/media has given us.

Welcome to MDC! I'm glad you're taking the time to look at this stuff... if you press on and do the research thoroughly, you'll be happy with whatever decision you make.

May I suggest that along with looking at the incidences of disease you should study the diseases themselves. I found that once I took a good look at the diseases I wasn't afraid of them in a healthy child. So while the chances of catching the diseases are pretty low for all of them anyway... I still wouldn't be upset if my girls got the diseases.

I'll be back with some hard numbers for you.

[NoMoreBugs]

I'm interested in this too. I have one PDD-NOS child, who received 24 vaxes in 24 months (including boosters). We have a new baby, almost 3 months old. He received the HepB at 2 weeks of age before I put the brakes on. I don't want to vax him further (well, either one, actually) and would love to hear this data. I was thinking of checking it out myself. If I find anything out, I'll let you know.

[LadyButler]

Here's DTaP and HIB... more coming.

Diphtheria: From 1980 to 2001, 53 cases of diphtheria were reported
to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Notifiable
Diseases Surveillance System.

(http://www.cdc.gov/nip/publications/...chpt01_dip.pdf)

Tetanus: The national tetanus surveillance system documented this decrease in tetanus morbidity from 560 reported cases in 1947, the year reporting began, to a total of 37 reported cases in 2001.

(http://www.cdc.gov/nip/publications/...13_tetanus.pdf)

Pertusis: In 2001, there were 7580 reported cases of pertussis (incidence 2.8 per 100,000).3 Of these, 22% (incidence 88/100,000) and 14 deaths occurred
among infants < 6 months. For all age groups, 25% of cases were among
infants < 12 months of age (incidence 50/100,000), 13% of cases were
among children 1–4 years of age (incidence 6/100,000, 10% of cases were
among children 5–9 years of age (incidence 4/100,000), 30% of cases were
among adolescents 10–19 years of age (incidence 6/100,000), and 22% of
cases were among adults ³ 20 years of age (incidence 0.8/100,000).

(http://www.cdc.gov/nip/publications/..._pertussis.pdf)

HIB: By 2000, the incidence of all Hib invasive disease among children < 5 years of age reported to the CDC declined by 96%—from 41 cases per 100,000 in 1987 to 1.6 cases per 100,000 in 2000.
(http://www.cdc.gov/nip/publications/...chpt02_hib.pdf)

[LadyButler]

Measles: "...measles incidence has decreased to a record low of 86 reported cases in 2000."

(http://www.cdc.gov/nip/publications/...06_measles.pdf)

Mumps: "The number of reported mumps cases in the United States has decreased more than 99% since licensure of the mumps vaccine in 1967, from 152,209 cases in 1968 to 274 cases in 2001." But it goes on to say: "In 1991, a mumps outbreak was sustained in a population where 98% of individuals had been vaccinated and where all but one individual with mumps had been vaccinated before the outbreak. Between December 1997 and May 1998, a mumps outbreak occurred in New York City. Among the 111 cases with known vaccination history, 92% had received at least one dose of mumps containing vaccine, and 62% had received two or more doses." *Note that the CDC says elsewhere that live vaxes (MMR) are 95 to 98% effective with first dose.*

(http://www.cdc.gov/nip/publications/...pt07_mumps.pdf)

Rubella: "The number of reported cases of rubella in the United States has declined more than 99%, from 57,686 cases in 1969 to 176 cases in 2000, with even fewer cases in 2001."

(http://www.cdc.gov/nip/publications/...11_rubella.pdf)

Polio: "The last U.S. cases of indigenously transmitted wild poliovirus disease were reported in 1979. Since then, apart from six cases of imported poliomyelitis, only one of which has occurred since 1986, all reported cases of paralytic poliomyelitis in the United States have been vaccine-associated. VAPP was a very rare disease, with an average of eight reported cases annually during 1980–1999, or one case reported for every 2.4 million
doses of OPV distributed. The risk of VAPP is highest following the first
dose of OPV and among immunodeficient persons. Since changing to an
all-IPV immunization schedule in 2000, there have been no cases of VAPP
reported in the U.S."

These make me sick. 8 cases a year due to vaccination from 1980 to 1999... no wild cases since '79.
(http://www.cdc.gov/nip/publications/...pt10_polio.pdf)