In 2001 there was a reduction of 99.99% in measles compared with the pre-vaccination era as well of 96% in whooping cough and 99% meningitis. Polio is eradicated and everything was thanks of the vaccines that has been used since late 1700 by Edward Jenner.
More than 300 years of safe use the reputation of the vaccines was overthrown by Andrew Wakefield a British doctor announced that measles-mumps-rubella vaccine created autism. Even with the fact that further research never recreated the same results that the Dr. acclaimed, now the damage was done, many parents began to refusing to get their kids shot because of the anti-vaccination movement supported by prominent people, doctors, and actors ( like Jim Carrey) and media leaders. No one got the time to digg into the doctors work, and Mr. Wakefield had his secrets. He performed some very risky invasive experiments on children without the hospitals and parents approval, he accepted nearly $1m dollars from legal firms suing vaccine manufactures and he applied for the patent for a vaccine replacement that he claimed caused autism that had made him rich. In 2004 the truth start to come out, but was to late.
2008 in San Diego California, kids where exposed to measles instead get vaccinated.
2009 in rural Minnesota a kid died from meningitis, his parents refused to vaccinate him against the disease, four kids where hospitalized from the same disease two of those their parents refused the vaccines.
The fourth kid was way to young to be fully immunized ( five months old) and the fifth kid has an immune deficiency.
2010 nine hundred cases of whooping cough have being recorded so far up from two hundred in 2009, five kids have died.
In march 2010, the journal that published Dr. Wakefield work finally retracted his original research. Now he is banned from practicing medicine in the UK.
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