Exhibit 190 ยท Agency reference text
Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (Pink Book), Chapter 13: Measles
In the years following licensure of vaccine in 1963, the incidence of measles decreased by more than 95%, and 2- to 3-year epidemic cycles no longer occurred.
CDC's Pink Book states that before 1963 about 500,000 measles cases and 500 measles deaths were reported in the United States each year, with an estimated 3 to 4 million actual infections, and that after vaccine licensure in 1963 incidence fell by more than 95 percent and the two- to three-year epidemic cycles stopped.
- Source
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Date
- Current edition
- Quoted from
- Pink Book, Measles chapter, Epidemiology section
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://www.cdc.gov/pinkbook/hcp/table-of-contents/chapter-13-measles.html
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit