Measles Deaths Were More Than 22,000 Percent Higher Just Before We Got a Measles Vaccine!
The Real Truth About Vaccines
Have you heard the idea that the big decline in measles deaths had nothing to do with vaccines?
As usual, it’s anti-vaccine propaganda.
Measles Deaths Were More Than 22,000 Percent Higher Just Before We Got a Measles Vaccine!
I know, because measles deaths were more than 22,000 percent higher just before we got a measles vaccine!
And this is all on the CDC website!
What else?
Measles cases and deaths have fallen by more than 99.5% since the recent high just before we got our first measles vaccine in 1963.
And yes, that’s because vaccines work.
Sure, improved sanitation, hygiene, nutrition, and advances in medicine led to a big drop in deaths in the earlier part of the 1900s, but it is very important to realize that the effect plateaued by the 1940s.
That’s why there still so many measles deaths in the 1950s!
But not just measles deaths!
There were also a lot of deaths from pertussis, diphtheria, tetanus, polio, mumps, and many other diseases that are now vaccine preventable.
Deaths that anti-vaccine influencers try to hide to make you think that vaccines don’t work.
Vaccines work. And they are safe, with few risks, and are very necessary.