http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/flemingpenicillin.html

Baby BoomHuge

Birthrate

2 VaccinesLicensed in

1963 but with-drawn due to

reactivity- usedsporadicallyuntil 1968

Penicillinintroduced

intostandardclinicalpracticein USafterWW2

No SchoolEntry vaccinerequirements

until 1980, 58-68%

vax rates,1 death

every 5 years.

In the 50's, 25% of Country Homes andFarms had not been reached by the RuralElectrification Act- no electricity means limitedrunning water, sanitation, refrigeration

http://www.doh.wa.gov/DataandStatisticalReports/DiseasesandChronicConditions/CommunicableDiseaseSurveillanceData/AnnualCDSurveillanceReports

60's impacts on infectious disease-Johnson's War on Poverty, Initiationof Medicare, Civil Rights Act

VaccineLicensed

1967

Did this infection reallywarrant a vaccine?

Vaccinelicensed

1969

NoVaccine

All of thesecharts are

all age-CP is moredangerousin adultsand are

representedin thesenumbers

60-70%Coverage1962 on

60 -70%Coverage

60-70%Coverage1962 on

NoVaccine

For Reference-Typhoid

Vaccine neverwidely used inUS Citizensoutside ofMilitary,

Stillexperienced

dramaticdecline

The 90% plus coverage rates we seetoday were first achieved in the

late 90's, and are the result of theconvergence of 3 programs-

1) School attendance requirements, which began inthe late 70's & early 80's;

2) The near complete indemnification for liability ofvaccine manufacturers and administrators by theNVICP, The National Vaccine Injury Compensationprogram in 1988; and

3) VFC- Vaccines For Children, a funding schemewhereby the government buys and provides all"required" vaccines, 1993.

Required vaccines are nowlegislated purchases.

There was never a "Golden Age", in the past when Va ccine Acceptance and Vaccination rates werehigher than they are today. The truth is there are more US children getting

more vaccines for more infections at younger ages t han ever in history!

Decades of30% - 40%

unvaccinatedpopulation withno epidemics