Posted on 06/23/2010 12:49:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Whooping cough is now an epidemic in California, and is on pace to break a 50-year record for infections and deaths for the year.
As of June 15, California had 910 recorded cases of the highly contagious disease, and five babies -- all under 3 months of age -- have died from the disease this year.
This year's surge in whooping cough cases, which is also known as pertussis, is a fourfold increase from the same period last year, when 219 cases were recorded.
At least 600 additional cases of pertussis are currently under investigation by local health departments.
Health officials say whooping cough is cyclical and tends to peak every two to five years.
A typical case of the disease starts with a cough and runny nose for one to two weeks, followed by weeks or months of rapid coughing fits that sometimes end with a whooping sound. Fever is rare.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbs2.com ...
Of course it could have just been common colds...
undocumented citizens? /s
undocumented citizens? /s
undocumented citizens? /s
undocumented citizens? /s
I thought people coming from third world countries had to have documentation of vaccines, tb tests, etc.
I thought people coming from third world countries had to have documentation of vaccines, tb tests, etc.
I thought people coming from third world countries had to have documentation of vaccines, tb tests, etc.
I thought people coming from third world countries had to have documentation of vaccines, tb tests, etc.
I thought people coming from third world countries had to have documentation of vaccines, tb tests, etc.
“The dirty secret is that the uptick in contraction of infectious diseases is largely due to the fact that we no longer screen immigrants coming into the country. Kind of hard when illegals dont go through proper channels.”
That’s what scares me about eating out.
*TB had been eradicated in the US until homosexualsAIDS patientsbrought it back.*
Not necessarily. All it takes is for people to not complete their course of medication, then you’ve got a potentially mutated strain running amok.
*There are a few idiot parents who wont have their children vaccinated, but the likely reservoir of disease is illegal alien children.*
One of the major infection grounds of all these diseases that were thought to have been eliminated are COLLEGES and UNIVERSITIES? Surely, even the most ignorant among you cannot possibly state with a straight face that’s the fault of illegal immigrants.
A good portion of of this is indeed hippie’s kids. The same thing happened in the late 60s with bacterial infections, for the same reasons.
The rest of the clowns are claiming that this is another 3-in-1 vaccine that needs to be administered individually. I’m sure some clown has a patented single-dose pertussis vaccine ready to go.
Correct. Per Wikipedia:
“There are a number of known factors that make people more susceptible to TB infection: worldwide the most important of these is HIV. Co-infection with HIV is a particular problem in Sub-Saharan Africa, due to the high incidence of HIV in these countries.”
The whooping cough vaccine is not a 100% guarantee against the disease. Kids need to get a series of 4 or such shots before they get to school-age. Adults need to make sure they get this with their tetanus booster. Illegals simply need to get lost.
I was vaccinated and got Whopping Cough despite the vaccine!
yeah, just in case you didn’t get it the first time...(sorry, not used to this computer...now I’m afraid to post this)
Sure was that way, and it had to be from a US Government approved MD too.
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