Yes, I saw that New York still has quite a problem! - Hope everyone stays on top of it! The vaccines are a small price to pay if you have ever seen an animal suffering from one of these preventable diseases... especially parvo... Parvo is heartbreaking to watch, and I have seen it. I hope folks don't act on the one-in-a-million reports of reactions to vaccines. We take bigger risks walking across the street.
Maybe over time the time period between shots will be expanded as we learn that the shots last longer than we thought, but I hope people don't interpret that to mean the shots are not necessary.
Yes, it's quite a problem. But I went and looked it up - state totals were down last year to only 821 known cases of rabies among wild and domestic animals. So I might have overstated it a bit for recent years, but the peak was something like 2700 cases in '93. It was interesting to learn that for the first time in a while, NY was no longer number one in the nation - Texas was, oddly enough. The gory details can be read
here - the 1993 and 1995 reports discuss the two fatalities.
Other than that, I'll just give you a bump for an extremely sensible position on vaccines ;)