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Originally Posted by Ashartus
Not true for most diseases we vaccinate against, including the targets of the MMR vaccine (which is why when the vaccination rates dropped after Wakefield's fraud, the incidences of these diseases increased again). Improved sanitation helps primarily against food and water-borne diseases (e.g. cholera), not those that are transmitted person to person.
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I didn't say vaccines didn't help, I said they were not primarily responsible for the reduction in disease, such as MMR. We're talking something like <5%, if I remember my single medical anthropology class correctly.