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| Thu, 05-01-2003 - 4:22pm |
put the discussion on scarlet fever on a solid base? Some here don't seem to grasp that scarlet fever is still very much around, in fact, if your child has had strep throat, s/he may have already had scarlet fever -
http://kidshealth.org/parent/infections/bacterial_viral/scarlet_fever.html
Judging by the frequency with which I see the "we have scarlet fever" signs up in my children's daycares it is still very much around, but due to antibiotics, it is no longer the killer that it used to be. Well, there is no causative treatment for measles, which are a viral disease, which is why the mortality of measles is not much better today than it was 100 years ago, a shame, really
Catherina
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Catherina, here are the death ratios (for the US) based on figures from the measles stats link on Eve's page. As you can see deaths declined significantly (hmm...even *before* the introduction of the vax!!) It is incorrect to say that mortality rates
are not much better than they were a 100 years ago (and it doesn't sound good for 'modern medicine' that it would be no more able to save the lives of measles
patients today than turn of the century medicine ;-)
Jan
1914 - 1923
3,634,078 cases
62,359 deaths
Death rate of 1:58
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1924 - 1933
4,166,505 cases
44,401 deaths
Death rate of 1:94
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1934 - 1943
5,756,759 cases
23,719 deaths
Death rate of 1:242
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1944 - 1953
4,915,361 cases
4,900 deaths
Death rate of 1:1003
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1954 - 1963
5,238,175 cases
4,305 deaths
Death rate of 1:1217
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1964 - 1973 ( first decade of vaccination)
1,216,491 cases
1350 deaths
death rate of 1:901
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Natural antivirals?