And maybe that's because of better or earlier medical intervention..... you ignore the fact, FACT, that statistics simply don't support your argument! [see below]
Speaking of deaths:
Before vaccines were available, reported pertussis occurred with an average rate of 157 cases per 100,000 population, high death rates, and peaks of illness every two to five years. One peculiarity of the clinical history of pertussis is that cases were more common among girls than boys, unlike many other infectious diseases that tend to predominate in boys.
The toll of pertussis before vaccines was staggering. For example, from 1926 to 1930, there were 36,013 pertussis-related deaths in the United States. The average death rates from 1940 to 1948 per 100,000 population per year were 64 in children less than 1 year old, 6.4 in those 1–4 years of age, and 0.2 in those 5–14 years of age. More than 90% of the reported pertussis cases occurred in children less than 10 years of age, with about 10% of those in children less than 1 year of age.
By 1974, extensive use of vaccines decreased the average annual incidence of reported pertussis to less than 1 per 100,000 population.
http://forms.asm.org/microbe/index.asp?bid=48816
So, the USA went from 70 DEATHS per 100,000 pop. from pertussis in children under the age of 14 to
reported cases of less than one per 100,000 of all ages in 1974. How clear does it get?
By all means, don't vaccinate your children, on your head be it, but don't spout untruths as justification....
