DB....you have quoted from your post.....
"You can't make any conclusions by taking one year's total of measles cases and comparing it to the figures from another year. What matters are long-term trends."
You didn't read my own post very thoroughly did you?
(In fact by 1955, still eight years before the start of this vaccine, there had been a 97% decline in the death rate from measles since the turn of the century!) What is more, medical authorities have since acknowledged that the 1963 measles vaccine was a complete failure.