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See chart 1. http://www.ispub.com/journal/the-internet-journal-of-infectious-diseases/volume-2-number-2/deterministic-modeling-of-infectious-diseases-measles-c
by chernevik 14y ago
See chart 1.
http://www.ispub.com/journal/the-internet-journal-of-infectious-diseases/volume-2-number-2/deterministic-modeling-of-infectious-diseases-measles-cycles-and-the-role-of-births-and-vaccination.html http://www.ispub.com/journal/the-internet-journal-of-infecti...
The case for the major vaccines is open and shut. In the past fifteen years the roster has been populated with some stuff that's less clear, but targetting diseases that are much less dangerous. If you are going to make arguments against vaccines like measles, polio, diphtheria, tetanus you _really_ must do more homework. These are very serious diseases and we really don't want casual free-riders avoiding vaccination.
- adrianwaj 14y agoThanks, I am aware of Measles being useful. How about Hep A/B/C, Meningitis and others? More importantly, illnesses and syndromes correlating with increased vaccine usage? That's 1 illness and 1 paper. I don't think vaccine usage is an open and shut case at all and there are many sub-issues and I'm not getting into a micro-discussion now on this thread.
- dedward 14y agoOne of those three (A or C, I forget) has no vaccine. The other two do, both are serious, common, and life threatening in a global scale, even if not so much in well-off places.... but it's out there en-masse. Hep B is among the most virulent and widespread diseases in the world and LOTS of people out there have it.
- chernevik 14y agoIf you want to make distinctions among vaccines that's one thing. Questioning "vaccine usage" generally is another. "Vaccines" have saved millions of lives from smallpox, polio, measles, DPT.