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Panel: All adults should get whooping cough shots
AP ^
| Feb. 22, 2012
| MIKE STOBBE
Posted on 02/22/2012 10:06:20 AM PST by wtd
ATLANTA (AP) A federal advisory panel wants all U.S. adults to get vaccinated against whooping cough.
The panel voted Wednesday to expand its recommendation to include all those 65 and older who haven't gotten a whooping cough shot as an adult.
Children have been vaccinated against whooping cough since the 1940s, but a vaccine for adolescents and adults was not licensed until 2005.
Since then, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has gradually added groups of adults to its recommendations, including 2010 advice that it be given to elderly people who spend a lot of time around infants.
Wednesday's recommendation means now all adults should get at least one dose.
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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: adultvaccine; mandated; whoopingcough; whoopingcoughvaccine
Estimates range widely for how effective the vaccine is at preventing whooping cough in older adults, or how much its protection wanes years afterward. Online:
CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/ACIP/
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posted on
02/22/2012 10:06:23 AM PST
by
wtd
To: wtd
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posted on
02/22/2012 10:13:16 AM PST
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(FR: Now, More Than Ever.)
To: wtd
Just mandate it. Hell, we’re way past the stage where we have to convince anyone to do anything the government believes is good for you.
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posted on
02/22/2012 10:16:34 AM PST
by
saganite
(What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
To: wtd
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posted on
02/22/2012 10:17:12 AM PST
by
ILS21R
(Never give up.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
I got one in 2007 when it was time for me to get my tetanus booster. The doc made a good case for it, so I got it. IIRC, it was called DTaP (Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis). No ill effects that I could tell.
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posted on
02/22/2012 10:23:28 AM PST
by
onemiddleamerican
(FUBO and all your terrorist buddies)
To: wtd
I’m guessing that it’s migrating north with the cranes. We really need to test those birds at the border.
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posted on
02/22/2012 10:27:33 AM PST
by
gundog
(Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Small correction... I dug out my papers... It’s called Tdap; I got the letters mixed up.
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posted on
02/22/2012 10:30:45 AM PST
by
onemiddleamerican
(FUBO and all your terrorist buddies)
To: onemiddleamerican
Small correction... I dug out my papers... Its called Tdap; I got the letters mixed up.
No Ill effects at all? Looks to me like it gave you dyslexia. :)
To: rickomatic
Good idea! I’ll blame it on the vaccine.
;-)
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posted on
02/22/2012 10:59:20 AM PST
by
onemiddleamerican
(FUBO and all your terrorist buddies)
To: wtd
We’ve had multiple outbreaks in my kids’ school district. At one point you needed to provide proof of vaccination to volunteer or chaperone at my daughter’s school.
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posted on
02/22/2012 11:17:21 AM PST
by
garv
(Conservatism in '12)
To: wtd
Most of us 45 and older have been vaccinated out the ying yang. It's the OTHER older how shall I say “undocumented immigrants” that haven't and they won't. I feel sorry for their babies and grand babies.
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posted on
02/22/2012 11:35:31 AM PST
by
poobear
To: wtd
I think the bigger issue here is why are we seeing an increase in the occurrence of this disease? Why do we need to increase the number of people getting the vaccination? I thought that this was a childhood disease, and was essentially eradicated years ago...
To: wtd
No I will not do this.I am never around children and with my already problems with autoimmune diseases I do nothing that could trigger it to react.
To: LaRueLaDue
A goal of the recommendation is to prevent teens and adults from spreading the disease to infants, although there's not good evidence this "herd immunity" approach has worked so far. It's just my personal opinion:
1) Mothers used to keep their infants at home away from germs until at least 6-months. Now they abandon infants to daycare.
2) Illegal aliens are spreading diseases.
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posted on
02/22/2012 2:44:50 PM PST
by
donna
(We live in this fog of political correctness, where everything is perpetual deception.-John Hagee)
To: wtd
You can catch bordatella from a dog. Bordatella is canine pertussis or whooping cough - according to the vet. New tetanus shots for adults are now DTP = Diptheria, Tetanus and Pertussis. Get a tetanus shot = get a whooping cough vaccination. Not a bad idea since adults can pass whooping cough it to little kids very easily.
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posted on
02/22/2012 2:49:21 PM PST
by
x_plus_one
(there is an unholy alliance between the Left and Islam, with radical Islam using the Liberal media)
To: donna
1) Mothers used to keep their infants at home away from germs until at least 6-months. Now they abandon infants to daycare. 2) Illegal aliens are spreading diseases. I think both factor in, but item (2) is the bigger problem. They are bring in the diseases, in addition to spreading them around.
To: wtd
I caught Whooping Cough when I was a kid. Nasty deal.
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posted on
02/22/2012 8:52:53 PM PST
by
Kevmo
(If you can define a man by the depravity of his enemies, Rick Santorum must be a noble soul indeed.)
To: onemiddleamerican
I got mine about 2 years ago. Sore arm for a day or two, nothing more. Absolutely worth it given the crimmigrant invasion.
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posted on
02/22/2012 10:52:43 PM PST
by
Fire_on_High
(WTB new tagline, PST!)
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