[Mamzelle]

Immigrants bring a lot of diseases, tuberculosis, for instance--but the present increase in pertussis is from a lack of vaccination in the general population.

Those who thought that having chicken pox better than the vaccine...I do hope you remember that when you come down with shingles later on down the road.

In my own family cematery there's a row of little tombstones from the early part of the twentieth century--four children dead in the same year from diptheria.

[neverdem]

Immigrants bring a lot of diseases, tuberculosis, for instance--but the present increase in pertussis is from a lack of vaccination in the general population.

I'd like to know how many cases in the general population are due to unvaccinated, illegal immigrants who bring pertussis with them. You can't tell that as well as how many native refuseniks there are. Check the 2nd link in comment# 1.

Those who thought that having chicken pox better than the vaccine...I do hope you remember that when you come down with shingles later on down the road.

I had shingles before the vaccine was approved for it. Sorry to read about your family.