Vaccinations have prevented at least 103 million cases of contagious disease since 1924 (death, Barack Obama)
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The impact of vaccinations in one nice little graph. Thanks science.
It focused on seven vaccine-preventable diseases: polio, measles, rubella, mumps, hepatitis A, diphtheria and whooping cough, and then tracked the number of cases following the introduction of vaccines. As the following graph shows, the introduction of commercial available vaccines for these diseases drastically reduced the number of probable cases of disease — eliminating 95 percent of likely cases overall, according to the study. Further, that's "probably an underestimate, since we could not include all vaccine-preventable diseases," according to the study authors.
If there's one medical advancement that has saved thousands of lives, it would have to be vaccines (and vaccination policy). One that's not listed is smallpox, which today no longer exists in the wild. Yet, it was rampant when it existed and one of the killers of children. It's too bad some people don't take this into their anti-vax viewpoint and it doesn't help that idiots like Andrew Wakefield helped fuel the anti-vax claims.
It's nice to be able to go outside and not worry about whether we'll get a fatal disease.
I find it interesting (and just a little intriguing) that with many issues the mantra is "If it saves just one child's life it is worth it!", but with other issues it is "SO WHAT if a few kids died or were injured, the majority were saved!"
vaccinations: SO WHAT if a few kids get sick and die! THOUSANDS were saved!
football: SO WHAT if a few kids suffer irreversible brain damage, and some die; HUNDREDS got to participate in a SPORT!
Guns: SO WHAT if there are millions of responsible gun owners who have never killed anyone, and never will; a few crazies killed children, so guns must be tightly controlled or outlawed!
Crazy people: SO WHAT if a few crazies committed mass murder; we must consider their rights above all else!
ETC.
The really bad part is, so many people see nothing wrong with those statements. They think they are perfectly proper!
I find it interesting (and just a little intriguing) that with many issues the mantra is "If it saves just one child's life it is worth it!", but with other issues it is "SO WHAT if a few kids died or were injured, the majority were saved!"
vaccinations: SO WHAT if a few kids get sick and die! THOUSANDS were saved!
football: SO WHAT if a few kids suffer irreversible brain damage, and some die; HUNDREDS got to participate in a SPORT!
Guns: SO WHAT if there are millions of responsible gun owners who have never killed anyone, and never will; a few crazies killed children, so guns must be tightly controlled or outlawed!
Crazy people: SO WHAT if a few crazies committed mass murder; we must consider their rights above all else!
ETC.
The really bad part is, so many people see nothing wrong with those statements. They think they are perfectly proper!
There is no peer reviewed link. The one "study" falsified data to create a link.
There appears to be more now because there is more/better testing for it.
I agree that science has shown no link between autism and vaccines, although the president disagrees:
"We've seen just a skyrocketing autism rate. Some people are suspicious that it's connected to the vaccines. This person included. The science right now is inconclusive, but we have to research it." -Barack Obama
Obama's administration even put constraints on vaccinations due to his belief in pseudo-science, which caused a shortage of vaccinations and people were hospitalized and died as a result.
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