Much of the success attributed to vaccination programs may actually have been due to improvement in public health related to water quality and sanitation, less crowded living conditions, better nutrition, and higher standards of living. Typically the incidence of a disease was clearly declining before the vaccine for that disease was introduced. In England, the incidence of polio had decreased by 82% before the polio vaccine was introduced in 1956.

Reviewing the charts from the extensive report, Universal Immunization' by Dr. Raymond Obomsawin, PhD., May, 1998 reveals some interesting 'facts'. In England, diptheria, pertussis and measles child mortality had declined 90% 'before' mass immunization for these diseases. In England & Wales, the annual child mortality from measles had declined from 1,100 per million to virtually zero 'before' immunization. In England & Wales, mortality from smallpox declined from 300 per million to virtually zero before immunization but spiked 275% upon introduction of the vaccine. In fact, a stringent compulsory smallpox vaccine program, which prosecuted those refusing the vaccine, was instituted in England in 1867. Within 4 years, 97.5% of persons between 2 and 50 had been vaccinated. The following year, England experienced the worst smallpox epidemic in its history with 44,840 deaths. Between 1871 and 1880, the incidence of smallpox escalated from 28 to 46 per 100,000.

In the US, tuberculosis mortality declined 96% without the benefit of any vaccine. The Dawbarns law firm in Norfolk, England issued the following public statement prior to initiating a major class action law suit for damages resulting from Britian's 1994 MMR campaign, 'We know of hundreds of children who were fit and well before being vaccinated, but who are now chronically ill or seriously mentally or physically disabled. Of some 600 cases: the most common are autism (202); serious digestive problems (110); epilepsy (97); hearing and vision (40); arthritis (42); behaviour and learning (41); ME (24); diabetes (9); paralysis (9); blood disorders (5); brain damage (30; and death (14).'

After introduction of diptheria vaccination in England and Wales in 1894, the number of deaths from diptheria rose by 20% in the subsequent 15 years. Germany had compulsory vaccination in 1939. The rate of diptheria spiraled to 150,000 cases that year whereas, Norway, which did not have compulsory vaccination, had only 50 cases of diptheria the same year. In 1975, Germany stopped requiring pertussis (whooping cough) vaccination. Today, less than 10% of German children are vaccinated against pertussis. The number of cases of pertussis has steadily decreased even though far fewer children are receiving pertussis vaccine.

Measles outbreaks have occurred in schools with vaccination rates over 98% in all parts of the US, including areas that had reported no cases of measles for years. As measles immunization rates rise to high levels, measles becomes a disease seen only in vaccinated persons. An outbreak of measles occurred in a school where 100% of the children had been vaccinated. Measles mortality rates had declined by 97% in England before measles vaccination was instituted.

In 1986, there were 1,300 cases of pertussis in Kansas and 90% of these cases occurred in children who had been adequately vaccinated. Similar vaccine failures have been reported from Nova Scotia, where pertussis continues to be occurring despite universal vaccination. Pertussis remains endemic in the Netherlands where, for more than 20 years, 96% of children have received three pertussis shots by age 12 months.

The incidence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) has grown from .55 per 1,000 live births in 1953 to 12.8 per 1,000 in 1992 in Olmstead County, Minnesota. The peak incidence for SIDS is age two to four months-the exact time most vaccines are being given to children. 85% of cases of SIDS occur in the first six months of infancy. The increase in SIDS as a percentage of total infant deaths has risen from 2.5 per 1,000 in 1953 to 17.9 per 1,000 in 1992. This rise in SIDS deaths has occurred during a period when nearly every childhood disease was declining due to improved sanitation and medical progress except SIDS. These deaths from SIDS did increase during a period when the number of vaccines given a child was steadily rising to 36 per child.

Dr. W. Torch was able to document 12 deaths in infants that appeared within 3.5 and 19 hours of a DPT immunization. He later reported 11 new cases of SIDS death and one near miss that occurred within 24 hours of a DPT injection. When he studied 70 cases of SIDS, two thirds of these victims had been vaccinated from one half day to three weeks prior to their deaths. None of these deaths was attributed to vaccines. Vaccines are a sacred cow and nothing against them appears in the mass media because they are so profitable to pharmaceutical firms.

Walene James, author of Immunization: The Reality Behind the Myth, states that the full inflammatory response is necessary to create real immunity. Prior to the introduction of measles and mumps vaccines, children got measles and mumps and in the great majority of cases these diseases were benign. Vaccines "trick" the body so it does not mount a complete inflammatory response to the injected virus.

There is a widely held belief that vaccines should not be criticized because the public might refuse to take them. This is valid only if the benefits exceed the known risks of the vaccines.

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