There would be no outbreak of pertussis, immigrants or not, if the kids were vaccinated, thanks to the moron parents who refuse to vaccinate, and the spineless bureaucrats in school administrations who let them get away with it.
To have an "outbreak", two things are necessary....a disease vector (immigrants) and a vulnerable population (unvaccinated).
Note...I was of the last generation before the pertussis vaccine, and actually had it as an infant. One of the few things from earliest childhood that I still remember.
” There would be no outbreak of pertussis, immigrants or not, if the kids were vaccinated, thanks to the moron parents who refuse to vaccinate, and the spineless bureaucrats in school administrations who let them get away with it.
To have an “outbreak”, two things are necessary....a disease vector (immigrants) and a vulnerable population (unvaccinated).”
Thank you.
Just wondering how old you are...I’m 64 and until last few years whooping cough was not on my radar...and I had no Vax for it either
A few months ago, I scraped my scalp on the bottom of our mailbox and I decided as a precaution to get a tetanus vaccination. The nurse said that the Tdap vaccine I received also protected against whooping cough, which was increasingly common in our area. She said she urges everyone who has not had the booster in 10 years to get it.