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Pertussis had never been eradicated in the United States. The NPR story that is used as a citation for this statement says that pertussis was "once thought to have been eradicated from the U.S." This statement is vague enough to be true under some interpretations (I'm sure someone somewhere has thought this), but anyone who did think this was demonstrably and unequivocally incorrect. Reported pertussis incidence in the United States hit it's lowest point in the mid 70's at about 0.5 cases per 100,000 ( http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/surv-manual/chpt10-pertussis.html#f2). Eradication does not mean very few cases, it means zero cases. Jane Snow ( talk) 19:26, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
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