Immediately subtract two from our total, for the two babies aborted whose cloned cells are used today in many vaccines.
Measles has caused five million deaths, most all of those prior to the introduction of the measles vaccine.
Since the introduction of measles vaccine, the world’s population has doubled.
It would not be a stretch to determine that the measles vaccine has saved millions of lives.
A lot of these diseases don’t kill you, generally. I think smallpox was the biggest killer, and I think that was the first vaccine developed. So, in terms of world population that is probably the most important one, I doubt most of the others would have a noticeable effect. But of coursed they have saved people from much suffering, disability and yes, to a small extent death.
I think they’re good, in theory. The least we deserve is a listing of all the ingredients. When I was at UConn, they were giving out free flu shots. That day, I got my flu shot. I happened to ask my virology prof I she got hers. She said she would NEVER get one because of all the garbage in them.
The gov’t has had to pay over a billion dollars in settlement for damage from vaccines...or so I’ve read.
It’s my understanding the world population was stable at around 300,000,000 for thousands of years, starting to increase only a 200-300 years ago.
Thomas Jefferson’s letter to Edward Jenner, father of vaccination.
To Dr. Edward Jenner Monticello, May 14, 1806
SIR,
— I have received a copy of the evidence at large respecting the discovery of the vaccine inoculation which you have been pleased to send me, and for which I return you my thanks. Having been among the early converts, in this part of the globe, to its efficiency, I took an early part in recommending it to my countrymen. I avail myself of this occasion of rendering you a portion of the tribute of gratitude due to you from the whole human family. Medicine has never before produced any single improvement of such utility. Harvey’s discovery of the circulation of the blood was a beautiful addition to our knowledge of the animal economy, but on a review of the practice of medicine before and since that epoch, I do not see any great amelioration which has been derived from that discovery. You have erased from the calendar of human afflictions one of its greatest. Yours is the comfortable reflection that mankind can never forget that you have lived. Future nations will know by history only that the loathsome small-pox has existed and by you has been extirpated.
Accept my fervent wishes for your health and happiness and assurances of the greatest respect and consideration.
Not a direct answer to the question but a good peek into history and population:
The prediction of population growth actually turns out to be all about public health and per capita income. In general, the poorer and sicker the populace, the more likely it will be driven to overpopulation. One can easily find dozens of articles on the Web that explain the dynamics.
Logically, there would be more people on Earth if vaccines were never developed, but they would be poorer and sicker.