Posted on 12/17/2014 4:22:52 AM PST by wtd
[video report at link]
With seven confirmed cases of pertussis or whooping cough popping up from elementary through high school grade levels in the Three Forks School District, one mother said she was surprised when her son came down with the disease.
"I was shocked," said Michelle Rogers.
Rogers says her family is currently in quarantine mode, after her 8-year old son tested positive for whooping cough. But the diagnosis was a surprise: "All of my kids are vaccinated and up to date with their shots."
Gallatin City-County Health Department Director Matt Kelley says health department officials are working with the school and with teachers to identify who came in close contact with infected students and or teacher.
"People who have been within three feet, arm-length distance for about a half hour or more," he said.
Kelley says their goal right now is to put a sort of barrier around those people, by keeping anyone infected out of school and making sure they are being treated with antibiotics recommended by the Centers for disease control.
"This is a really preventable disease," said Kelley. "Also very treatable, so the best thing people can do is make sure your kids are up to date on their shots."
Kelley admits that it's possible for a child to become infected even with the vaccine. However, if a person is vaccinated, the disease can be less severe and people can get well much faster.
"I'm thankful my kids are vaccinated," said Rogers. "It terrifies me to think what unvaccinated child would be going through."
Rogers had this advice for parents: "If your child has a cough, I'm not talking about a little cough, if it's bad - Get them tested"
Kelley says the most at risk are infants younger than six months, because they are not vaccinated.
According to the health department, Montana has one of the highest number of pertussis cases in the nation. Even adults should consider getting booster shots.
thank you
I got a Pertussis booster a few years ago as it was recommended. Perhaps the vaccine only lasts so long and of course I got that as a little kid. My mother and her sister had whooping cough as kids....she said they would cough & cough until they threw up. Awful!
Its the Guat- whooping cough from Guatemala.
“The current vaccine for whooping cough, or pertussis, may keep you or your baby healthy, but it may not stop either of you from spreading the disease, a new animal study suggests.”
They try to blame the newer vaccine but that one has been out for 25 years. So it’s not exactly ‘new’.
We’re currently the only country that still does this btw. It’s called ‘cocooning’.
“He said the national Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) had determined vaccinating parents was not effective in protecting newborns, after two pharmaceutical manufacturers made submissions to the PBAC.
“The PBAC, which is totally independent and very expert, has determined that there is no clinical effectiveness of this strategy,” Professor Brook said.
He said this had made it clear the cocooning strategy should not be continued.”
Not necessarily because we did not have loads of people swarming across the border with their third world diseases. Take a look at where the outbreaks are and you will find illegals in large numbers.
Haven’t you figured out that the swarms of sick illegals being deposited around the country have made communities sick? Measles, TB, whooping cough, and other diseases that are unique to the areas they have come from.....it is easily traceable
That’s what I was pointing out. That should have been included in the article.
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