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The Decline of the Infectious Diseases
The diagrams below complement the article titled Myths of Modern Medicine: The Increase
in the Human Life Span.
"The medical historians of our century... agree that the decline of the epidemics which had wrought havoc in the Middle Ages was not due to the introduction of vaccination, but of hygiene, for they had diminished long before large-scale inoculations had begun..."
Hans Ruesch, 'History of Medicine', Slaughter of the Innocent, CIVIS, 1991, p.194
Diagrams below illustrate:
- Decline of Infant Mortality in the United Kingdom (UK)
- Decline of Measles in England & Wales
- Decline of Whooping Cough (pertussis) in England & Wales
- Decline of Scarlet Fever in England & Wales
- Decline of Tuberculosis in England & Wales
- Decline of Tuberculosis in USA
- Decline of Typhoid Fever in England & Wales
- Decline of Poliomyelitis in England & Wales
- Decline of Poliomyelitis in USA
- Decline of Diptheria in four European countries.
- Decline of Bronchitis, Pneumonia & Influenza in England & Wales
- Decline of Measles in Australia
- Links to charts for the Decline of Smallpox in England, Wales & Ireland.
Unless stated otherwise the diagrams below are from Dr Robert Sharpe's book The Cruel Deception, Thorsons Publishing Group, Wellingborough, U.K. 1988, chapter 1.
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Dr Robert Sharpe: "Infant mortality was appalling... According to one estimate more than half the human race died before the age of ten... Infant mortality is now regarded as one of the best indications of a country's social conditions. Infant mortality is lowest in countries with a very high standard of living... In 1902 the Midwives Act (UK) was passed which improved the training and skills of midwives and from the turn of the century infant mortality fell rapidly, in line with the improvement in social conditions." (Quotes from The Cruel Deception, 1988, pages 21, 24, 25.)
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"It is a widely held fallacy that mortality from infectious disease only commenced to fall with the advent of modern [pharmaceutical] agents." Ramsay & Emond, Infectious Diseases.
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The diagrams complement the article titled
Myths of Modern Medicine: The Increase
in the Human Life Span.
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Dr Robert Sharpe: "Mortality for virtually all the infections was declining before, and in most cases long before, specific therapies became available... The impetus to better health from the mid nineteenth century onwards can therefore be directly traced to public health measures and social legislation that improved the living standards of working people... Higher wages and welfare benefits made it possible for the poor to eat properly and public health measures radically improved conditions in the densely-populated urban areas, particularly with the provision of clean water supplies, sanitation, sewerage and new housing... Susceptibility to the infections diminished radically as nutrition, housing, hygiene and genreal living conditions improved..." (Quote from The Cruel Deception, 1988, page 24)
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Further information on the decline of infectious diseases and doubts about the effectiveness of vaccination can be found in the article A History of Western Medicine excerpts from a book by the medical historian Hans Ruesch.
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See The Polio Vaccine: a critical assessment of its history, efficacy, and long-term health dangers. Sections on:
~ Polio and adverse reactions in vaccinated people
~ Decline of Polio prior to and without vaccinations
~ Changing definitions to reduce "incidence" after vaccination campaigns
~ Low virulence: Most people show no symptoms - the Germ Vs the Soil (host organism)
~ Polio Vaccine from monkeys: SV40 virus & human cancer
~ Polio Vaccine from monkeys: SIV virus, HIV & AIDS
~ Polio Vaccine from cows: BSE and Mad Cow Disease
~ Polio Vaccine - putting dangerous animal viruses into our bodies
~ Polio Vaccine - creating new varieties of polio
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From W. James, Immunisation: Reality Behind the Myth 1988 : "An even more interesting abuse of statistics becomes apparent when perusing polio statistics. The diagnostic criteria and reporting procedures for the disease changed. In the 1950s, the sophisticated virological techniques of today did not exist. And the technology that existed was rarely available to practicing physicians. Therefore, most diagnoses were based upon clinical observation, not sophisticated virological studies. Since polio was epidemic, most physicians were cavalier in making a diagnosis of "non-paralytic poliomyelitis" in children presenting with vague symptoms of muscle aches, malaise, and fever. Since polio was "going around", such children must have had polio. Today, they might be diagnosed as having influenza, again in the absence of laboratory confirmation. And like influenza today, most cases of polio were self-limited. The cases progressing to the paralytic form got the publicity. Interestingly, as the number of polio cases decreased, the number of meningitis cases increased. Consider these figures from the Los Angeles County Health Index: Morbidity and Mortality, Reportable Diseases...
"The authors of this publication offer an explanation for this rather strange inversion of figures: "Most cases reported prior to July 1, 1958 as non-paralytic poliomyelitis are now reported as viral or aseptic meningitis." In another masterful example of faulty reasoning, it was concluded that since the vaccine had "wiped out polio", children with similar symptoms must have something else - meningitis!"
See The Polio Vaccine: a critical assessment of its history, efficacy, and long-term health dangers.
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The diagrams on this page complement the articles titled:
- Myths of Modern Medicine: The
Increase in the Human Life Span - due to Medicine or Political Social Reforms? This article explains that the great increase in human life span in the developed world (during the 19th and 20th centuries) was due to political social reforms
like better sanitation systems and improved hygiene and nutrition. It was not due to pharmaceutical
drugs or other medical interventions.
- An 11-page PDF excerpt from
Dr Robert Sharpe's book "The Cruel Deception"
- on the decline of mortality from infectious diseases.
- Here is a detailed article on The Decline of Smallpox in Great Britain - Vaccination in Doubt. It includes a critique of Edward Jenner's book and theories.
- A History of Western Medicine: From ancient Greece to modern times ... a summary of how human medicine: i) progressed due to scientific clinical observations of humans; and ii) was stalled and led astray for millenia due to misleading results from vivisection ... excerpts from a book by the medical historian Hans Ruesch.
Recommended Organisations:
Physicians Committee
for Responsible Medicine: Group of doctors, physicians and
health practitioners promoting good health through real science. http://www.pcrm.org
Campaign
Against Fraudulent Medical Research (CAFMR): Archive of articles. Information that the pharmaceutical-chemical industry do not want us to know: medical history, medical fraud, psychiatric abuses,
vaccination damage coverups, behind sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) etc. http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr
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