To solve this problem, we need comprehensive immigration reform before we agree to close the border (sarc)
This was on our local TV news twice today and it said 910? cases had been reported but it didn’t say much more then that but we had to ACT NOW!!!
Here in Texas just in the last couple of weeks, there have been TV ads warning parents to get the adult inoculation so they don’t pass it on to the babies. One thing I’ve found interesting about the ad is the mother is hispanic. We all know the illegals are bringing in all kinds of diseases we had wiped out.
My math may be a bit rusty, but I get the impression a 50 year old record would have been set in 1960. So either it's a 52 year old record or maybe the story actually ran in 2008. Or perhaps it's just another totally innumerate "journalist." So which is it?
My wife had dinner with a friend the other night. A couple days later the friend sent an email saying she has whooping cough and was contagious during dinner and to watch for signs.
Years ago working for a moving company spent the day with a guy coughing all day. Moving furniture, packing up boxes, driving in the truck, etc. After we got back to the shop he asked for a ride to the clinic. I said something like “Yeah - that’s a bad cough, you should get that checked out and make sure it’s nothing too serious.” He replied “Oh, it’s Tuberculousis - but I do need to get some more medication.”
The gift that keeps on giving!
The quack “doctors” and looney celebrities who are telling people that vaccinations are dangerous ought to be really proud right now. I wonder if they have attended any of these kids’ funerals?
Ping!
The vaccinations only last a few years. Teens and adults would need boosters. I wonder if there are any that don’t come in the full DTAP shot. It would be nice to go and get a pertussis vaccine alone.
Gotta love the brilliant reporting.
http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20100624/NEWS01/6240310
In Monterey County this year, more than 80 percent of the reported cases involve Latinos, the Health Department reported, and the state says 80 percent of the infants who have died of pertussis in California since 1998 were Latino.
But the disease should not be linked to immigration, [Dr. Lisa Hernandez of the Monterey County Health Department] said, noting that the county Health Department does not collect data on whooping cough patients’ citizenship status.
Gee, I wonder where it came from?