Posted on 04/06/2019 5:10:18 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
AUSTIN, Texas — A lawmaker said a child on the Capitol floor on Thursday was diagnosed with whooping cough. "I had my daughter with me on Thursday on the floor as I do on many days. On Friday in the afternoon my phone started blowing up.” Erin Zwiener, a state representative, said she immediately reached out to her pediatrician.
"It was particularly worrisome because whooping cough can be deadly to infants," said Zwiener. "It’s a disease that, for most adults, is a really bad cold, but many young children don’t survive it." Dr. Maria Monge is a pediatrician who said whooping cough is a very contagious bacterial illness that spreads easily between people. "We don’t hear about it unless there’s an outbreak or unless someone’s been diagnosed with it, and there’s a lot of potential exposures," said Monge. Monge said it's especially concerning for infants.
"The biggest deal is for children under the age of one, who are most susceptible to the effects of pertussis, and the reason why is because a lot of times their symptoms aren’t as severe as older people, so it’s not diagnosed," said Monge. "Their presenting symptom is that they stop breathing, and so it can be potentially deadly in that age group, so that’s why we’re most concerned about it."
Zwiener said her child is vaccinated, but while her child is expected to be okay, she's still nervous. We’ve only had two colds in nine months -- I’m happy with those results," said Zweiner. "But it is for me, at this point, the scariest thing about parenting." The Department of State Health Services sent a letter to notify employees to consult their primary health care provider.
I would like to urge the Congress critters from Waco, Huston, and Austin not to worry about it at all. You’ll be fine.
Why is this lawmaker telling us about it? She can do more about it than the average citizen.
“Give me your infected, your diseased,
Your huddled masses struggling to breathe,
The wretched criminals of our open borders.
Send these, the freeloaders, drug-dealers, to us:
I lift my leg on congresses door.”
So much for orderly immigration which proved effective years ago.
(excerpt)-great article
Time for an Ellis Island Approach to Immigration
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Studies have identified the importance of cross-border movement in the transmission of various diseases, including HIV, measles, pertussis, rubella, rabies, hepatitis A, influenza, tuberculosis, shigellosis, syphilis, Mycobacterium bovis infection, brucellosis, and foodborne diseases, such as infections associated with raw cheese and produce.
These are all contagious diseases and relatively uncommon in the U.S. Fox News reports, “One-third of migrants in caravan are being treated for health issues” including HIV/AIDS, TB, chickenpox, and lice.
Apart from the diseases above making a resurgence in the U.S., a new one called acute flaccid myelitis, thought to be caused by a virus, is currently in the news. This is a polio-like illness causing permanent arm and leg weakness in children. Polio has been largely eradicated, but now American children are becoming infected. Could it be related to the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants entering the U.S.?
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This is why I just had the entire family get vaccinated with the tdap booster. Whooping cough is horrific.
Well there's the problem right there. Females transforming the workplace into fr*ckin' DAY CARE CENTERS! It's particularly disgusting when such places are where the tax payer's business is SUPPOSED to be done!
Make up your minds, females. You're either PARENTING or you're someone's EMPLOYEE. You cannot be BOTH at the same time!
all deaths from these diseases
result from Obama and his band of treasonous traitors,
helped, supported, enticed by
the scum known as the US Congress,
who imported every disease they could,
and sent them to every city that they could.
I am just SO puzzled which party this irresponsible and foolish politician belongs to.
How old is the kid she brought to work with her?
That’s the best news I’ve heard all day. They deserve a good dose for not doing more to stop the flood.
Maybe their game plan is to spread their diseases on all of us then hold universal healthcare as their bargaining chip to get the illiterate to vote for them.
It’s almost as if when they realized what they had done to America, they decided to double down rather then throw in their hand and suffer defeat.
While I understand and sympathize with perspective, I don't think this statement is helpful to the conservative cause. In our present economy women have to work to help make ends meet and of course children have to be looked after.
Those are simple facts of life in the modern United States, and denying facts such as these is not going to advance the conservative agenda one iota.
It's going to put a lot of folks off who will now see conservatives as just damned mean people.
This is only the beginning of disease and pestilence that will be forever wreaking havoc in the United States of America. Read the Scriptures. . . we have been forewarned. Resource: www.Mercola.com regarding vaccinations.
Congress ceated the dust bowl mess.
They never responded until it came to their town.
Quote~ “This is only the beginning of disease and pestilence that will be forever wreaking havoc in the United States of America. Read the Scriptures. . . we have been forewarned.” Resource: www.Mercola.com regarding vaccinations.
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In complete agreement, even so, look up for your redemption draweth nigh!
“In our present economy women have to work to help make ends meet ...”
I put a lot of blame on the women for this predicament. Before the feminism movement, companies paid men enough to support a family and more than “make ends meet”. The families I knew in the ‘50s and ‘60s had nice lives, and only the husbands worked. It was a disgrace to a man if his wife worked other than teaching or nursing.
Then women demanded their place in the workforce in the boardroom. Companies realized they no longer had to pay men the way they had before and could hire women for less.
Now women have to work because their mothers and grandmothers sabotaged their husbands’ living-wage income.
(I think I heard this or similar from Rush a couple decades ago.)
I had it... You cough so long and violently it’s as if you will die of suffication.... Hard to catch your breath.
Wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
Sorry to hear that. There are clusters of Whooping Cough starting all over the U.S.
There’s a lady in the office at work who has a pretty bad sounding cough. She’s been there about a year. It will “clear up” but then always comes back. Doesn’t appear to have any other symptoms and isn’t a smoker. Makes me nervous but we aren’t friendly enough for me to pry and ask about it.
I had whooping cough at six months old. I have always been susceptible to bronchitis and upper respiratory virus. Its really a bad news disease.
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