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Christina Abel
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Docket# 8-0900-30570
Wednesday, July 24, 2013 3:28:35 PM
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Dear Judge Lipman,
My last letter (hooray!) addresses the MDH rebuttal,
"Critics of vaccination often use charts and graphs showing that a disease declined
before mandating or even introducing the vaccine.
Such graphs, however, usually only report the cases of death from the disease.
They do not show the actual number of cases..."
Thank you for your time and attention,
Chris Abel
“Critics of vaccination often use charts and graphs showing that a disease declined before
mandating or even introducing the vaccine. Such graphs, however, usually only report the cases
of death from the disease. They do not show the actual number of cases or complications
because of the disease. …. That happened once the vaccine was licensed”
Found this graph while looking for the disease caused by the bacteria, Haemophilus influenzae
type b, which by the way was not found in my pediatric nursing book. The U.S. graph shows the
reported incidence rate per 100,000 population of “reported” pertussis, diphtheria and polio
cases, 5 year average, 1920-1958.
It mentioned the decrease was the results of immunization measures.
The DPT vaccine was licensed in1949. http://www.immunize.org/timeline/ It wasn’t until the late 1940’s
early 1950’s that children began to be vaccinated with the diphtheria toxoid and pertussis
vaccine. In 1953 the standard unit of potency was adopted for the pertussis vaccine.
Polio vaccine was licensed in 1955 after polio peaked in 1952, but this a five year average graph.
But what percent of babies or adults were being vaccinated before 1958?
It wasn’t until 1963 President John F. Kennedy signed the Vaccination Assistance Act into law.
It allowed the CDC to support mass immunization campaigns and to initiate maintenance
programs.
1964 The Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP) to the U.S. Public Health Service
was formed to review the recommended childhood immunization schedule and note changes in
manufacturers' vaccine formulations, revise recommendations for the use of licensed vaccines,
and make recommendations for newly licensed vaccines.
1977, Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Secretary of the Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare (later
Health and Human Services) launched the National Childhood Immunization Initiative with a
goal of achieving 90% vaccination levels among all children.
Yes “Better hygiene and sanitation, plus improved living standards, have undoubtedly had a
direct impact on disease but those developments do not account for all improvement in public
health. To the contrary, examining actual disease incidence (number of new cases of disease)
over the years shows there is little doubt of the significant and direct impact vaccines has had on
diseases.”
This is the rate per population for deaths from all causes of infectious diseases in the US,
including infections we have no vaccines for.
Chris Abel