vaccine defender link

[MinorityView]

claiming that vaccines DID bring down the death rate from measles, which remained high until the vaccine was introduced

Just thought I'd put it up in case anyone wants to practice doing their analysis of pro-vaccine crap.:alien:

http://www.iayork.com/MysteryRays/2009/09/02/measles-deaths-pre-vaccine/

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

What's wrong with this blog:

1) first the measles incidence data are always wrong, since serological surveys show that actually, every measles epidemic, results in the 'equivalent' of a whole cohort becoming immune.

so if all children prior to the vaccine, had immunity by the age of 15, then you can safely say that every year, 4.4 million or thereabouts, of americans, had measles.

Given that the majority of reported cases are solely the serious caes that pass through the hands of the medical profession, disease incidence has always been, and always is, seriously under-reported.

Which conversely means that the infection / death ratio is always over-inflated.

So briefly deconstructing this blog:

1) The first graph of Measles incidence and deaths starts at 1950. Given that he says that the antivaccine movement says that DEATH decline decreased 90% by 1950, I do not see any proof on this website to dispute that.

The second graph, again, is measles incidence, and has nothing to do with death.

His links to the books Registrar General books are pretty meaningless, because using google, you cannot confirm the truth of the graph at all. neither does he comment on WHY measles stopped being a reportable disease in 1921. After all, if something is as bad as it ever was, you don't take it off the resportable list.

Why use anomalies and curiosities of medicine, when the actual death data is available from one of the UK Health government statistics websites?

[MinorityView]

Wow, you are good at that.

The main thing I noticed was that incidence and mortality were being mixed together. And that the first graph did, indeed, start in 1950.