SIDS Never Disappeared in Japan
That's another anti-vaccine talking point that is easily shown to be a lie.
Have you heard that the incidence of SIDS disappeared in Japan after they raised the age of vaccination to two-years-old?
It is a propaganda that anti-vaccine influencers continue to launder across their social media accounts and websites.
SIDS Never Disappeared in Japan
And of course, it isn’t true.
For one thing, Japan never raised the age of vaccination for all vaccines to two years old. That was only for the DPT vaccine and only for a brief time, from 1975 to 1981.
Infants would have still gotten the polio and smallpox vaccines and maybe even the BCG vaccine.
And while the smallpox vaccine was stopped in 1980, by 1981, they started using a newer DTaP vaccine.
And what happened to the incidence of SIDS at this time?
It didn’t disappear…
It went up, but not with any correlation to what was happening to their immunization schedule.
The incidence of SIDS didn’t start to drop until after Japan instituted a national back to sleep campaign.
It had nothing to do with vaccines.
Vaccine Preventable Diseases Reappeared in Japan Though
But what did happen when Japan mucked with their immunization schedule?
By stopping the DPT vaccine (eventually switched to DTaP vaccine) and the MMR vaccine (they switched to MR vaccine - no mumps) and delaying the introduction of many other vaccines, Japan has had:
similarly to what happened in Sweden, Japan had an outbreak of pertussis that directly correlated with decreased use of the DPT vaccine in the 1970s and caused 13,105 cases of pertussis and 41 deaths.
regular outbreaks of mumps, with associated complications, including meningitis, orchitis, arthritis, myocarditis, nephritis, polyneuropathy, hepatitis, and oophoritis.
a rubella outbreak in 2012–2013 that caused about 15,000 cases of rubella and 43 cases of congenital rubella syndrome.
continued cases and deaths from diseases like epiglottis (51 deaths a year), Hib meningitis, pneumococcal meningitis, chickenpox, and rotavirus, etc. that were being brought under control in the United States and other countries with earlier introduction of their respective vaccines.
So they had more disease and more deaths.
Not less SIDS.
Not less autism.
What else?
You should know, that if they anti-vaccine influencers are lying about this, they are almost certainly lying about all the other things they are posting to try to scare you away from vaccinating and protecting your kids.
Don’t be fooled. Stop listening to them.
Get vaccinated and help Stop the Outbreaks.