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Compared to my above post, this doesn't cover my skepticism as I agree with this.... to a degree. It's the clouded mix of information in between this fact which is know, compared to the amount of vaccines being distributed today and their actual effectiveness which is also compared to the actual risks today.
Wrong... sanitation has indeed improved since 1990 in the means of more societies recycling, moving biodegradable products from your trash into compost bins (Thereby less bacteria buildup [ie: mold spores from fruits and vegitables, rotting meat products] in your garbage bags and spores being released into the air in your houshold.) The reduction of pollution overall since 1990 is alone a contributor to increased health. Not to mention the continual improvments of cleaner water and hygen around the world, esspecially in developing countries....
This of course is not to say Vaccines have also had an effect on health too, but the above statement is incorrect. Also granted, pollution is still no where perfect in the world and there are still effects seen due to pollution today, but it's still improved since 1990.
I am currently looking for backup information.....
"Diseases had already begun to disappear before vaccines were introduced, because of better hygiene and sanitation."
Statements like this are very common in anti-vaccine literature, the intent apparently being to suggest that vaccines are not needed. Improved socioeconomic conditions have undoubtedly had an indirect impact on disease. Better nutrition, not to mention the development of antibiotics and other treatments, have increased survival rates among the sick; less crowded living conditions have reduced disease transmission; and lower birth rates have decreased the number of susceptible household contacts. But looking at the actual incidence of disease over the years can leave little doubt of the significant direct impact vaccines have had, even in modern times.
Compared to my above post, this doesn't cover my skepticism as I agree with this.... to a degree. It's the clouded mix of information in between this fact which is know, compared to the amount of vaccines being distributed today and their actual effectiveness which is also compared to the actual risks today.
..... Are we expected to believe that better sanitation caused incidence of each disease to drop just at the time a vaccine for that disease was introduced? Since sanitation is not better now than it was in 1990, it is hard to attribute the virtual disappearance of Hib disease in children in recent years in countries with routine Hib vaccination (from an estimated 20,000 cases a year to 1,419 cases in 1993, and dropping in the United States of America) to anything other than the vaccine.
Wrong... sanitation has indeed improved since 1990 in the means of more societies recycling, moving biodegradable products from your trash into compost bins (Thereby less bacteria buildup [ie: mold spores from fruits and vegitables, rotting meat products] in your garbage bags and spores being released into the air in your houshold.) The reduction of pollution overall since 1990 is alone a contributor to increased health. Not to mention the continual improvments of cleaner water and hygen around the world, esspecially in developing countries....
This of course is not to say Vaccines have also had an effect on health too, but the above statement is incorrect. Also granted, pollution is still no where perfect in the world and there are still effects seen due to pollution today, but it's still improved since 1990.
I am currently looking for backup information.....
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