The CDC and VAERS offer a lot of what you're looking for. According to their most recent data, the incidence of pertussis in the U.S. for children under 1 year was about 9 per 100,000 (http://www.cdc.gov/pertussis/surv-reporting.html). Infants under 1 year are by far the most frequently infected age group.

There's also a wealth of information on the two vaccines (http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/pertussis/default.htm#safety), including effectiveness and lack thereof, possible side effects and who shouldn't get vaccinated. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System has downloadable raw data, though the reports aren't verified (http://vaers.hhs.gov/data/index).

Pertussis kills about 300,000 people a year, most of them babies who aren't vaccinated, according to the CDC.

Hey! Guess what? You don't get to tell me what to do with my children. Sucks for you!

I love it when people that can't spell or use proper grammar call everyone else idiots!

ok everyone that comments for spelling errors. shut up coz u make them too ur not god and even if u were you will still make that mistake so grow up and stop judging on otheres mistake

The sad thing is people who decide not to vaccinate their children leave them exposed to a variety of complications. You can't just run to the ER to stop mumps from making your child deaf. Yet if these complications occur these very same parents will be here begging us to pray for their neglected children. Why do they think God made these vaccines available in the first place?

Measles: Approximately 1 in every 1,000 cases of measles results in additional nervous system complications. Encephalitis, or brain swelling, and it leaves approximately one-quarter of affected patients with long-term brain damage.

Mumps: Deafness can result from infection damaging the nerves of the inner ear. Deafness occurs in 0.5 to 5.0 per 100,000 cases. Deafness can occur in one or both ears and is usually permanent. Meningoencephalitis can cause permanent paralysis, seizures, paralysis of the facial nerves and hydrocephalus (water on the brain).

Rubella (German Measles): A very serious progressive disease known as subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) occurs in about 1 in every 100,000 cases. This condition can take years to develop, but once it does, it eventually leads to death.

Pertussis (whooping cough): This disease can be fatal for infants younger than 6 mo who are exposed to unvaccinated siblings.

Chicken Pox: Babies born to women who develop chickenpox during pregnancy are at risk for muscle and bone defects, abnormal limbs, blindness, seizures or mental retardation.

Avenging Angel,
You mention serious complications from routine childhood diseases, but you don't mention the potential side effects from vaccinating previously HEALTHY children against these illnesses. Side effects listed on the package inserts and recorded in the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System. Vaccination is a medical procedure that has the risk of injury and death. Parents should have the right to choose which risks they are willing to take for their families. Kids shouldn't be collateral damage for the greater good. Is every adult on this board up to date with all the shiny new vaccine boosters? Because vaccines do not offer natural immunity, whatever antibodies created are often temporary. Do you know kids are required to have over 34 childhood vaccines to go to school now? In the 80s we had 13. There is evidence that suggests this constant stimulation of a child's immune system may be responsible for the increase in allergies, asthma, autoimmune and chronic childhood disease - so we trade communicable disease for a general decline in overall health. In short, be thoughtful, ask questions, read all you can and don't be afraid to choose what you feel is best for your family. Bullies won't help you if your child is injured by vaccines, it will be up to the parents.

Please do your family a favor, get a job or go back to school. You are doing them no benefit being a stay at home mother...the most you are doing is showing everyone here just how ignorant and uneducated you are.

dgerber another screw loose upstairs. thats was an ignirant comment . theres alot of stay at home mothers . ur more than likley a person that hates kids arent you.

Since most of the other population are vaccinated it wouldn't matter if I "contaminated ohers". I do have the right to risk my children's life and since I also have the right to go to parks and such I guess people like you have the right to stay home and keep your children in a bubble....maybe in the woods!

Stop bullying parents who may or may not be exercising their right to choose. NO PERSON should be forced to put potentially dangerous vaccines into their family. Read about the risks associated with vaccines. Listen to parents who have children who have suffered from vaccine injury. We know that vaccines don't work 100% of the time and yet people are not dropping like flies from these diseases. How many residents live in Ocean County? How many? 14 cases of whooping cough, we don't know how many are vaccinated/not vaccinated and bullying people to be quarantined and go live in the woods? Are you kidding me? Which person in this scenario should be separated from the rest of society?

Well said ProudMommy!

its common sense to keep any sick child away from a newborn . and its common sense not to go to work or school with a cold. people that bring a sick person in to see a newborn shuld be slapped across the face and pittyed people shuld no better

Completely agree. Well said!

newborns have no immun system thats y they tell u to keep ur child away from others and wash ur hands bfor even entering a romm u def dont have a child and if u did sorry to say thet poor child wuld be sick all the time

well than my kids are lucky to have there mommy in there lives almost 24 -7 and same with other kkids that have a stay at home parent. and yes bills have to get paid i understand that. and yes daycares arent clean iin the least. thats y parents shuld no when there child has something contagious and serious to keep that child home and alert the school saying that the child has come down with somthing to alert the parents of the other kids to keep and eye out

Well said.

When you start seeing vaccines for sale plastered on Walgreens ask yourself if this is really necessary.

Its all about money. Dont be a sucker.

Ya know what else makes a good profit....baby coffins. I'm guessing your not a doctor so it's kind of crazy to advise people not to get vaccinated. There are a lot of diseases that used to kill tons of people that due to science we have a grip on like measels. However due to the Jennie McCarthy type hysterical crazies many of these diseases are on the rise. Do your homework from responsible sources and understand that not all vaccines are the work of the devil.

People who have questions about vaccine safety are "Jennie McCarthy type hysterical crazies"? That doesn't make any sense at all. Have you actually listened to what that woman has to say? The doctors wouldn't help her. Her son was injured and her concerns and questions were dismissed. She has helped thousands of parents of injured kids realize that they can have hope to recover their children from injury.
Some kids are more susceptible to vaccine injury than others - it's a fact that even the head of the CDC conceded before she left her position and waited 12 whole months before becoming the head of Merck's vaccine division. A one-size-fits-all vaccine protocol doesn't make any sense, except to those who profit from it.
Baby coffins... pfft. You are a bully who doesn't know about the subject you are condemning people about.

now a days it seems more dangerous to get vaccinated than to be sick badly. i rather risk it

What if the answer was NONE of them?

More likely a simple devaluation of the dollar that triggers massive inflation and empties stores shelves. Buy Silver!

One need only look at the Jenny McCarthy Body Count.

http://jennymccarthybodycount.com/Jenny_McCarthy_Body_Count/Home.html

Well said. Good post.

sorrry i have no clue about jenny but anyways i was just at ohi in lakewood and they even said there not even mandating this shot. the people that has this infection is so small and in one isolated area as of now. they dont even seemed to be worried about it. but there wwas a young child with phnamonia sorry cant spell that word . but anyways its the mothers right to choose to get there child/children vaccinated or not. and its all based on there opinion and religions.

lifelong,

Ms. McCarthy does not present herself as an appalling, irresponsible nut case on the subject of vaccine safety, nor does she claim to be a medical doctor. She does not claim to be anti-vaccine, she is pro SAFE vaccines. She does not claim indifference to contagious disease.

No disease has ever been eliminated by vaccines. Previously healthy children and adults have also died from vaccination. This is not a competition, it's the truth. The vaccine adverse events reporting system lists fatalities as a result of getting vaccinated. Children are mandated to get more than 36 childhood vaccines now to attend public school. Back in the 80's we got 13. How many will be too many? How many times must parents play Russian Roulette with their kids, hoping they don't get a bad reaction THIS time?

Dr. Andrew Wakefield was sacrificially stripped of his license and his findings were not "made up". The procedure used to procure blood samples was in question, not the science behind them and there are other doctors who are also researching gastrointestinal disease in the guts of autistic, previously healthy children. He hypothesized that the possible environmental trigger of the MMR vaccine was to blame.

You are talking about clinging to a fear of something that is clearly documented, but you are using hate, hearsay and sound bites to backup your own position of fear.

Lisa, you are wrong.

1) After vaccination campaigns throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the WHO certified the eradication of smallpox in 1979. Smallpox is one of the two infectious diseases to have been eradicated, the other being rinderpest, which was declared eradicated in 2011.

2) Jenny McCarthy said in 2009; "“I do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe."

Sounds pretty indifferent to me. Especially given the research her tirade is based on was debunked and her kid doesn't have autism.

In the state of NJ, if you do not agree with one vaccination, but want your child to go to public school, you must bypass all vaccinations. Right now, the law is all or nothing unless a doctor will agree to write a medical exemption for the offending vaccine. This doesn't usually happen unless a reaction has already occurred. At this time, only medical and religious exemption exists in NJ. A parent can not legally pick and choose and send their kids to school, their hands are tied.

FYI, Small Pox has made quite a come back in Africa and other nations. Small Pox originated in primates, in order to irradicate Small Pox, every primate on the face of the earth would have to be vaccinated. Also, Polio is not irradicated. Within the last ten years migrant workers in central PA have come down with the Polio virus due to drinking untreated water from springs. Just information.

Mare: Citation please. Where is smallpox making a comeback?

There are and always have been "risks" involved with ALL vaccinations, since the very first one they ever came up with. It's up to your doctor to explain all such risks, and allow parents to make informed decisions based on their own children and their suseptability to the risk involved. However, that being a 'given' the fact that a tiny percentage of children may experience unwanted and yes, even sometimes serious side effects from vaccinations, is no reason to be a staunch Anti-Vaccine advocate. Every time you give a child over the counter cold medicine, stomach medicine, pain relief medicine, etc, you are assuming a risk. Life is full of risks. But when THOUSANDS of children are saved - every single year - in America alone, thanks to vaccines and the eventual irradication of some serious diseases, we need to weigh those statistics against hysteria and the extremely small risk to individuals.

Nicole, NJ has a law that allows parents to opt out of the 2nd MMR shot, the 5 yr old booster based on results of a titer test. Holly's Law is named after a previously healthy 5 yr old girl who, though she had no percievable reaction to her first MMR, developed encephalitis (brain swelling) and died within days of her MMR booster. It would be great if all NJ parents new this was an option, but I don't know if insurance will cover the titer test.