Very interesting table, orginally from CDC and reproduced on the Parents of Kids with Infectious Diseases website showing the impact of vaccines on disease in America:Maximum Annual vs. 1995 Cases of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases in the U.S.
| Disease | Maximum Annual Reported Cases in the Pre-Vaccine Era (year) | Reported Cases in 1995** | Percentage Change in Morbidity |
| Congenital Rubella Syndrome | 20,000 * (1964-5) | 7 | (99.46) |
| Diphtheria | 206,939 (1921) | 0 | (99.99) |
| Invasive H.influenzae | 20,000 * (1984) | 1,164 | (94.18) |
| Measles | 894,134 (1941) | 309 | (99.97) |
| Mumps | 152,209 (1968) | 840 | (99.45) |
| Pertussis | 265,269 (1934) | 4,315 | (98.37) |
| Poliomyelitis (wild) | 21,269 (1952) | 0 | (99.99) |
| Rubella | 57,686 (1969) | 146 | (98.75) |
| Tetanus | 601 (1948) | 34 | (94.34) |
| Total | 1.64 million | 6,815 | (99.58) |
*Estimated because nationalreporting did not exist in the prevaccine era. **Provisional total.Source: Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, CDCAs the website says, the table:
outlines nine diseases and the effect vaccines have had on their incidence in the U.S.. It's easy to see the result: in 1995 there were only 6,815 reported cases of all 9 of these diseases put together, compared to 1.6 million reported cases when these disorders ran unchecked through the population. The pre-vaccine figure, 1.6 million, represents an enormous degree of human suffering and loss.
