Talk:DPT vaccine

Pertussis was never "eradicated."

Pertussis had never been eradicated in the United States. The NPR story that is used as a citation for this statement says that pertussis was "once thought to have been eradicated from the U.S." This statement is vague enough to be true under some interpretations (I'm sure someone somewhere has thought this), but anyone who did think this was demonstrably and unequivocally incorrect. Reported pertussis incidence in the United States hit it's lowest point in the mid 70's at about 0.5 cases per 100,000 (http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/surv-manual/chpt10-pertussis.html#f2). Eradication does not mean very few cases, it means zero cases.Jane Snow (talk) 19:26, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Yup, the entire section that refers to the NPR story (https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104523437) is not even quoting the NPR story accurately, let alone the study. Furthermore, the NPR story does not link to Pediatrics directly so at a minimum this page should link directly to the June 2009 Pediatrics journal: https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/123/6/1446/71569/Parental-Refusal-of-Pertussis-Vaccination-Is

Currently the page has this: " However, in the early 21st century, reported instances of the disease increased 20-fold due to a downturn in the number of immunizations received and resulted in numerous fatalities"

- per NPR it was 1,000 cases in 1997 to 26,000 in 2004, can we not find a better source for case counts?

- the NPR article says "anecdotal reports from doctors nationwide report an increase in the number of parents refusing to vaccinate their children against childhood diseases" ... how did this get turned into "20-fold due to a downturn" ??? And worse, how then did this summary go on to assert that the refusals resulted in "numerous fatalities" as if only the unvaccinated children are dying. The NPR article made no claim about who was dying, nor why. The article simply said there were 140 deaths from 2000 to 2005 from pertussis. The study summary (the rest is paywalled) has no discussion of death. The Pediatrics study covers case counts. And even that Pediatrics study showed only 11% of pertussis cases were among unvaccinated children, which means 89% were among vaccinated children.

This whole section that refers to the NPR article needs rewritten. It's terrible at best. Misleading at worst. And as a parent, when I see this on a wikipedia page I can't help but wonder if people are intentionally misleading me about vaccines and makes me wonder if I perhaps have been duped (after giving my child the full schedule)... at least have the decency to make sure these pages are factual. I'm sure there are plenty of facts alone to bias the conversation, we don't need sloppy/shoddy reasoning too. Weshigbee (talk) 20:16, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

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