Baby Boom
Huge
Birthrate
2 Vaccines
Licensed in
1963 but withdrawn due to
reactivity- used
sporadically
until 1968
Penicillin
introduced
into
standard
clinical
practice
in US
after
WW2
http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/flemingpenicillin.html
http://www.doh.wa.gov/DataandStatisticalReports/DiseasesandChronicConditions/CommunicableDiseaseSurveillanceData/AnnualCDSurveillanceReports
No School
Entry vaccine
requirements
until 1980,
58-68%
vax rates,
1 death
every 5 years.
Vaccine
Licensed
1967
Vaccine
licensed
1969
No
Vaccine
All of these
charts are
all ageCP is more
dangerous
in adults
and are
represented
in these
numbers
60-70%
Coverage
1962 on
60 -70%
Coverage
60-70%
Coverage
1962 on
No
Vaccine
For ReferenceTyphoid
Vaccine never
widely used in
US Citizens
outside of
Military,
Still
experienced
dramatic
decline
There was never a "Golden Age", in the past when Vaccine Acceptance and Vaccination rates were
higher than they are today. The truth is there are more US children getting
more vaccines for more infections at younger ages than ever in history!
Decades of
30% - 40%
unvaccinated
population with
no epidemics