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1 Vaccines Work! CDC statistics demonstrate dramatic declines in vaccine - preventable diseases when compared with the pre- vaccine era most recent pre- vaccine era reports estimated annual or estimates percent disease morbidity1 of cases decrease Diphtheria 21,053 02 100%. H. influenzae (invasive, <5 years of age) 20,000 332,3 >99%. 4. Hepatitis A 117,333 4,000 95%. 4. Hepatitis B (acute) 66,232 20,900 68%. Measles 530,217 1202 >99%. Meningococcal disease 2,8865 3402 88%. Mumps 162,344 6,1092 96%. Pertussis 200,752 18,9752 91%. Pneumococcal disease (invasive, <5 years of age) 16,069 1,700 6 89%. Polio (paralytic) 16,316 02 100%. Rotavirus (hospitalizations, <3 years of age) 62,5007 30,6258 51%. Rubella 47,745 72 >99%. Congenital Rubella Syndrome 152 52 97%.
2 Smallpox 29,005 02 100%. Tetanus 580 332 94%. 9. Varicella 4,085,120 102,128 98%. 1. CDC. JAMA November 14, 2007; 298(18):2155 63. 5. CDC. MMWR October 6, 1995; 43(53):1 98. 2. CDC. National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, 6. CDC. Active Bacterial Core Surveillance, 2016 data 2017 Annual Tables of Infectious disease Data. Avail- (unpublished). able at 7. CDC. MMWR, February 6, 2009; 58(RR-2):1 25. NNDSS finalized annual data as of November 28, 2018. 8. CDC. New vaccine Surveillance Network, 2017 data 3. An additional 10 cases of Hib are estimated to have (unpublished); rotavirus disease now has a occurred among the 203 reports of Hib (<5 years) with biennial pattern. unknown serotype. 9. CDC. Varicella Program, 2017 data (unpublished).
3 4. CDC. Viral Hepatitis Surveillance United States, 2016. Technical content reviewed by the Centers for disease Control and Prevention Saint Paul, Minnesota 651- 647- 9009 Item #P4037 (2/19).
