1.7 How common are the diseases vaccinated against?
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This article is from the Childhood Vaccinations FAQ, by Lynn Gazis-Sax lynng@alsirat.com with numerous contributions by others.
1.7 How common are the diseases vaccinated against?
I have extracted from table number 190, in _Statistical Abstracts of
the United States_, the following table, showing the frequency, in the
US, of some diseases for which vaccinations are either available and
diseases for which I knew a vaccine was being developed or researched
(obviously with more success in some cases than in others). Table
information extracted from:
No. 190. Specific Reportable Diseases - Cases Reported: 1970 to 1990
Disease 1970 1980 1983 1984 1985 AIDS (N/A) (N/A) 2,117 4,445 8,249 Chickenpox (1000) (N/A) 190.9 177.5 222.0 178.2 Diptheria 435 3 5 1 3 Hepatitis B (serum) (1000) 8.3 19.0 24.3 26.1 26.6 A (infectious) (1000) 56.8 29.1 21.5 22.0 23.2 Measles (1000) 47.4 13.5 1.5 2.6 2.8 Meningococcal infections 2,505 2,840 2,736 2,746 2,479 Mumps (1000) 105.0 8.6 3.4 3.0 3.0 Pertussis (1000) 4.2 1.7 2.5 2.3 3.6 Plague 13 18 40 31 17 Poliomyelitis, acute 33 9 15 8 7 Rabies, animal 3,224 6,421 5,878 5,567 5,565 Rabies, human 3 _ 2 3 1 Rubella (1000) 56.6 3.9 1.0 1.0 0.6 Tetanus 148 95 91 74 83 Tuberculosis (1000) 37.1 27.7 23.8 22.3 22.2 Typhoid fever 346 510 507 390 402 Disease 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 AIDS 13,166 21,070 31,001 33,722 41,595 Chickenpox (1000) 183.2 213.2 192.9 185.4 173.1 Diptheria _ 3 2 3 4 Hepatitis B (serum) (1000) 26.1 25.9 23.2 23.4 21.1 A (infectious) (1000) 23.4 25.3 28.5 35.8 31.4 Measles (1000) 6.3 3.7 3.4 18.2 27.8 Meningococcal infections 2,594 2,930 2,964 2,727 2,451 Mumps (1000) 7.8 12.8 4.9 5.7 5.3 Pertussis (1000) 4.2 2.8 3.5 4.2 4.6 Plague 10 12 15 4 2 Poliomyelitis, acute 8 6 9 5 7 Rabies, animal 5,504 4,658 4,651 4,724 4,826 Rabies, human _ 1 _ 1 1 Rubella (1000) 0.6 0.3 0.2 0.4 1.1 Tetanus 64 48 53 53 64 Tuberculosis (1000) 22.8 22.5 22.4 23.5 25.7 Typhoid fever 362 400 436 460 552
Measles: 45 million cases and around 1 million deaths estimated in
developing countries in 1990. (Clements, Strassburg, Cutts, and Torel)
Polio: 16,435 cases reported by 46 countries to the Expanded Programme
on Immunization in 1990, a 39% decrease from 1989 when 26,916 cases
were reported. (Hull and Ward)
"Neonatal tetanus claimed the lives of over 433,000 infants in
1991. It is endemic in over 90 countries throughout the world."
(Whitman, Belgharbi, Gasse, Torel, Mattei, and Zoffman)
Pertussis (whooping cough): 659,973 cases reported in 1987. (Galazka)
The incidence of some of these diseases has changed significantly
since the tables in this section. More up to date information on
worldwide incidence of vaccine preventable diseases can be found at
http://www.who.org.
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