WARNING: Whooping Cough Outbreak

America Academy of Pediatrics ^ | November 1, 2004

[bd476]

Thanks for posting this, PPaul. I also thought that if you've had the immunization, you won't get it.

Haven't heard of any whooping cough outbreaks in my area, but there is a persistent cold/flu with a bad cough going around.

Prayers for you and your family's quick healing.

[montag813]

Where are you (what state, city?) Thanks, worried for my kids and wondering where this is prevalent.

[Rebelbase]

"Thanks President Bush! Thanks to your Open Borders Amnesty policy,we can count on more great diseases like this to make a comeback in the USA again!--You made this possible! Thank You! and Thank You Vincente! For sending us your poor,sick,hungry,and criminal. "

Not to worry, Real ID will bring an end to this and create an American Shangri La.

/sarcasm.

[Rebelbase]

Per our conversatation last night: Third problem with with an insecure border.

[Kozak]

They can't give the pertusssis to anyone over 7, it's not licensed for adult use.

[Kozak]

In areas like Europe and India where TB is very common and endemic the BCG probably makes sense. In the US where it was so UNCOMMON, it made more sense to use the TB test to screen people, and treat those that converted to positive. Once you get the BCG the skin tests all react, so screening is much tougher.

it really is maddening that we nearly had TB completely controlled in the US and through a combination of opening the immigration flood gates, and the AIDS epidemic it took off again here.

[OXENinFLA]

And you're WHERE?

City,County,State????

[dawn53]

Aw, thanks for the info.

That explains it, because I looked at his records and when we went to China he was about 8 and got a Td (that's what it was called instead of DT), and this year they gave him another booster of Td because he's going to Central America (but he also went last year, and they didn't give him a booster, so I'm supposing they have about a 10 year effectiveness.)

So both times, he would have been over 7 and that's why it wasn't a DPT.

Good thing about FR, if you don't know an answer to a question, somebody else will.

[Cagey]

JERRY: (Disgusted) What is with that?!

KRAMER: Well, it's coughing, Jerry. It expells the diseased germs out of the body, into the air. (Makes a guesture of germs being in the air)

[BuckeyeOhio]

I had whooping cough about 40 years ago - gave it to my mother and father also. My uncle did the grocery shopping for us because he had it years ago and we weren't allowed out of the house (his sister died from it)

I was never so sick in my life - thought I would die when coughing because of not being able to get my breath.

My doctor said that the vaccine isn't lifetime protection and everyone should be re-vaccinated every 10-15 years for this.

Hope you and your family get better fast - I had it for about 8 weeks. I still get a whoopy type cough whenever I get a chest cold.

[dawn53]

BCG is the most used vaccine in the world.

But they doubt that its effectiveness carries over into adulthood because if it did, then we wouldn't have as many TB infected people worldwide.

Here's an interesting link on BCG.

http://www.metrokc.gov/health/tb/bcgvaccine.htm

[TomB]

anti-vaccination stupidity ping

[show me state]

Whooping-cough booster shots urged in Salt Lake County
Salt Lake City Deseret News, UT - 5 hours ago
Pertussis cases — whooping cough — have tripled in Utah this year over years past. The Salt Lake Valley Health Department recently ...

Whooping cough cases reported again; older children now can ...
Herald & Review, IL - 6 hours ago
DECATUR - Eleven more people have been confirmed to have pertussis, or whooping cough, totaling 21 in Macon County this year, according to the Macon County ...

[PilloryHillary]

A family member works for a health department in SC, and they have been fighting an outbreak of Whooping Cough for months. They say it's one of the worst outbreaks in a very long time. Here in Michigan, it's going around....my youngest son was in preschool and there were many kids with it. My son had it (twice) this past winter and my neighbor's kids came down with it as well...and it's not a fun thing to go through. Prayers for you and the family's quick recovery. As our pediatrician says "LOTS OF HANDWASHING!"...

[foolscap]

I have not seem much here but my friends in CO say there is a lot where they live. My girlfriend who is in her early 50's came down with it. It was very, very bad. That was months ago and she is not really healthy yet. I hope your return to health is easier than hers has been.

[tomkat]

Have just seen this thread, so maybe this is answered further along:

Is there a particular area of the country this 'outbreak' is being seen ?

[StarCMC]

I haven't heard about it around here at all, but my kids are homeschooled so I don't always know what's happening in the schools. Where do you live? (Generally)

When my oldes was about 2 she experienced vomiting after coughing episodes and we had to have her tested for whooping cough. ARGH! That was about the worst thing I have ever had to have done to a kid! ICK!

Prayers for your quick recovery, PPaul!

[jocon307]

"I am assuming if you have been vaccinated (DPT) it lasts your lifetime, I could be wrong about this."

Some are saying that the protection fades over time.

I think what a lot of people fail to grasp about immunization is that having the entire, or nearly entire, vulnerable population vaccinated is a big part of what makes it work. Folks think, well it's ok to not vaccinate my child, the others will be vaccinated so there will be no one for my child to catch the disease from. But once a bunch of folks start thinking like that the whole concept starts to fall apart.

I think they're going a tad overboard with vaccines these days, but for the most part it is worth the risk.

[Conservatrix]

The child is a very young infant who has not been fully immunized and/or has had exposure to someone with a chronic cough or the disease.

Yet anothe reason NOT to vaccinate your children. if you can still get pertussis AFTER vaccination, what is the point of vaccinating? Pertussis vaccine is reponsible for more children's deaths from vaccine reaction than pertussis itself. Vaccines are a boon for the drug congolmerates but are the bleeding and leeches treatment of the 20th century. Check out the National Vaccine Information center http://www.909shot.com ". . . If the State can tag, track down and force citizens against their will  to be injected with biologicals of unknown toxicity today,  there will be no limit on what individual freedoms the State can take away in the name of the greater good tomorrow." - Barbara Loe Fisher, Co-Founder NVIC

[Conservatrix]

Sorry about the italics problem on my post....