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BASELINE 20TH CENTURY ANNUAL MORBIDITY AND 1998 MORBIDITY FROM NINE DISEASES WITH VACCINES RECOMMENDED BEFORE 1990 FOR UNIVERSAL USE IN CHILDREN: UNITED STATES
 
           
Disease Annual Morbidity 1998 Morbidity % Decrease
 
   
Smallpox 48,164 1 0 100  
Diptheria 175,885 2 1 100 3  
Pertussis 147,271 4 7,405 95  
Tetanus 1,314 5 41 97  
Poliomyelitis 16,316 6 1 100 3  
Measels 503,282 7 100 100 3  
Mumps 152,209 8 666 >99  
Rubella 47,745 9 364 >99  
Congenital Rubella Syndrome 823 10 7 >99  

Haemophilus influenzae type B

20,000 11 61 12 >99  
                 
         

1 Average number of annual case in 1900-1904.

2  Average number of annual case in 1920-1922, 3 years before vaccine development.

3 Rounded to nearest tenth.

4 Average number of annual case in 1922-1925, 4 years before vaccince development.

5 Estimated number of cases based on reported number of deaths during 1922-1926 assuming a case-fatality rate of 90%.

6 Average number of annual case in 1951-1954, 4 years before vaccince licensure.

7 Average number of annual case in 1958-1962, 5 years before vaccince licensure.

8 Number of reported cases in 1968, the first year of reporting began adb the first year after vaccine licensure.

9 Average number of annual case in 1966-1968, 3 years before vaccince licensure.

10 Estimated number of cases based on seroprevalence data in the population and on the risk that women infected during childbearing year would have a fetus with congenital rubella syndrome.

11 Estiamted number of cases from population-based surveillance studies before vaccine licensure in 1985.

12. Excludes 194 cases of Haemophilus influenzae disease of unknown serotype or not type b. Represents unvasive diease in children younger than 5 years of age.

               Source:MMWR.2000;48(RR-12):8.

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