Your graphic is very beautiful but it doesn't show much. Coming from a doctor I'd expect to see more than a graphic showing a correlation.
I totally expect people not to have the same rate of contagious diseases as 100 years ago. I don't know how different should the rate expected to be but I know they aren't supposed to be the same. Your graph doesn't prove anything.
I don't plan on going into the meat of this topic here but I plan on doing so in a post at some points. I'll love to have your comments when I do so.
You are right, this graphic of course just is a quick overview and not a prove to anything. And you are also right that vaccines are not the only reason for this massive declines. Of course the other parts of modern medicine and hygenie also play a big role.
Bur don't underestimate the part vaccines did. Let's just as an example look at pertussis. In the 1970s Japan temporarely stopped the use of the vaccines. Let's look what happened then.
Here are so scientific articles about it:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15889991
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7206322
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3508651
I don't think the general medical level or hygenie dropped from one year to another. So maybe it just was the vaccines ;)
Of course I will answer to an article on vaccines if I think I can give value to the discussion. I followed you to not miss it. Would be glad if you do the same, I will also post about this topic for sure.
Great I will be very interested to read your posts when they arrive!
Followed in anticipation! =)
I am looking forward to your post @teamsteem. I will also be interested to hear @theaustrianguy's responses! Upvoted! =)
Awesome. I gave a reply above that might interest you. I just thought I'd let you know.