There's no evidence the MMR vaccine is saving lives. Measles deaths were very rare a few years prior to the measles vaccine (1968). We also don't see healthy non-vaccinated kids in first world nations dying from measles.
A kid has a great chance of dying, or having serious complications from the MMR vaccine then a healthy nonvaccinated kid does of dying from measles.
Here I seem to have found evidence that the MMR vaccine is saving lives. In fact, I'll see your spurious link and raise you one from the WHO.
Key facts
- Measles is one of the leading causes of death among young children even though a safe and cost-effective vaccine is available.
- In 2008, there were 164 000 measles deaths globally nearly 450 deaths every day or 18 deaths every hour.
- More than 95% of measles deaths occur in low-income countries with weak health infrastructures.
- Measles vaccination resulted in a 78% drop in measles deaths between 2000 and 2008 worldwide.
- In 2008, about 83% of the world's children received one dose of measles vaccine by their first birthday through routine health services up from 72% in 2000.
- WHO | Measles
Now, of course, the World Health Organization is run by commie, liberal, atheists whose favorite TV show is "South Park", but hear them out.
Also there is a site called WickedPedaphile or something like that. It says this:
Before the widespread use of a vaccine against
measles, its incidence was so high that infection with measles was felt to be "as inevitable as death and taxes."
[6] Today, the
incidence of measles has fallen to less than 1% of people under the age of 30 in countries with routine childhood vaccination.[
citation needed] In the United States, reported cases of measles in the United States fell from hundreds of thousands to tens of thousands per year following introduction of the vaccine in 1963. Increasing uptake of the vaccine following outbreaks in 1971 and 1977 brought this down to thousands of cases per year in the 1980s. An outbreak of almost 30,000 cases in 1990 led to a renewed push for vaccination and the addition of a second vaccine to the recommended schedule. Fewer than 200 cases have been reported each year since 1997, and the disease is no longer considered endemic.
[7][8][9]
The benefit of measles vaccination in preventing illness, disability, and death has been well documented. The first 20 years of licensed measles vaccination in the U.S. prevented an estimated 52 million cases of the disease, 17,400 cases of
mental retardation, and 5,200 deaths.
[10] During 19992004, a strategy led by the
World Health Organization and
UNICEF led to improvements in measles vaccination coverage that averted an estimated 1.4 million measles deaths worldwide.
[11]
Measles is
endemic worldwide. Although it was declared eliminated from the U.S. in 2000, high rates of vaccination and good communication with persons who refuse vaccination is needed to prevent outbreaks and sustain the elimination of measles in the U.S.
[12] Of the 66 cases of measles reported in the U.S. in 2005, slightly over half were attributable to one unvaccinated individual who acquired measles during a visit to Romania.[13] This individual returned to a community with many unvaccinated children. The resulting outbreak infected 34 people, mostly children and virtually all unvaccinated; 9% were hospitalized, and the cost of containing the outbreak was estimated at $167,685. A major epidemic was averted due to high rates of vaccination in the surrounding communities.[12]
You notice what I highlighted there? One unvaccinated person infected 34 people and 9% had to be hospitalized. So you want to stop the MMR vaccine for all do ya? Mao killed over 10 million... you going for the record?
You hit the nail on the head when you said that measles in the UK are rare and they cause few deaths. Of course, that is a result of the MMR vaccine.
