BEFORE there was the DTP. BEFORE there was the MMR.

England's whooping cough and measles deaths were down over 99% BEFORE the vaccines in 1957 and 1968.

“All of the old menaces like typhoid, smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough and diphtheria have become minor causes of death. The chance is very remote indeed that any of them will ever again assume sufficient importance in the mortality tables seriously to affect the general death rate.”

― Dr. Louis Dublin, 1935.

Dr. Louis Dublin, “Better Economic Conditions Felt in Fewer Deaths,” Berkley Daily Gazette, December 27, 1935.