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There is a perception out there that vaccines saved us from the deadly diseases of the 19th and 20th centuries. But did they?

Please review the evidence below.

You will see that in developed nations, mortality from these diseases declined dramatically before  vaccines came in, with the trend heading downward (smallpox and polio excepted, they have different stories). This was largely even before antibiotics were widely used.

Vaccine protagonists argue we can see the worth of vaccines better by looking at graphs showing disease incidence (morbidity), rather than by looking at mortality. However death rates give us the most accurate picture of what is going on—incidence data only includes reported cases, and many cases of disease are never reported, but deaths usually are.