Of course the only casualties now are from bad reactions. Our population has increased enormously due to advances in the control of decimating disease. That makes the few failures all the more traumatic. The disease itself is virtually gone from the US population--but it could come back, the way TB is making a comeback.
I'd like to see the anti-vaccine crowd start their own country. They could use the old Hansen's colony on Molokai and spend their time swapping pathologies...wouldn't last very long.
The disease is virtually eliminated from the planet - again, the few places where polio occurs, is ALWAYS associated from a vaccination - and has been for at least 10 years.
so is your beef vaccinations or TB? Two very different subjects.
One of the reasons TB is making a comeback is because antibiotics are so overused - they are not as effective (good thing for the drug makers who keep having to come up with stronger ones huh?