Thread: Whooping cough outbreaks show many not vaccinated

Whooping cough outbreaks show many not vaccinated
By Steven Reinberg, HealthDay

Recent outbreaks of whooping cough highlight the need for adults to be vaccinated against this highly contagious disease, U.S. health officials said.
Not only does vaccination protect adults against the disease, it reduces the odds that they will pass on an illness that can be life-threatening to those most at risk: infants who haven't finished their full vaccination series, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

A whooping cough outbreak this year in California has already sickened more than 5,270 infants and killed nine, the agency reported. That rate of illness is the highest recorded in the state since 1955, according to the California Department of Public Health.

The best way to protect yourself and the infants you come into contact from getting whooping cough — also known as pertussis — is the tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (Tdap) vaccine, the CDC advises.

"A pertussis booster shot is essential to prevent the spread of pertussis to infants," said infectious disease expert Dr. Marc Siegel, an associate professor of medicine at New York University in New York City, who was not involved in the report.

"This vaccine wears off, and if you don't get a booster you are putting babies at risk because the spread of pertussis is on the increase, with 17,000 cases reported in 2009," he said. Most infants that have not had their full vaccination series are under six months of age.

If you take care of an infant or have contact with an infant, you have to get a booster, Siegel said. "That booster is best done by getting Tdap, because you need a tetanus booster anyway, so Tdap makes total sense," he said.

The CDC recommends that all adults 18-64 in contact with infants or working in health care receive a Tdap within two years of their last tetanus vaccination, and that other adults in the same age range be offered the vaccine 10 years or more after their last tetanus shot.

However, in the event of outbreaks or a jump in cases of whooping cough in the community, these adults can be vaccinated even when they got last tetanus shot less than 10 years ago, the agency said.

Tdap, which was first introduced in 2005, offers protection from tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis.

However, in 2008, only 5.9% of U.S. adults received the Tdap vaccine, and 13, 278 cases of whooping cough were reported — a figure that is likely an underestimate, according to the report in the Oct. 15 issue of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

The survey was limited in that vaccination data was self-reported and possibly inaccurate; also, many respondents were excluded because they were unsure whether they got a regular tetanus shot or Tdap. This means that as many as 14.6% of U.S. adults may actually have gotten the Tdap vaccine, the agency reported, but they added that even that figure was "suboptimal."

The Tdap is totally safe and everyone should be vaccinated, Siegel said. But there may not be enough awareness of the need for these boosters, and there is a lot of anti-vaccine propaganda out there, he said. "We need a pro-vaccine campaign to combat the anti-vaccine campaign," he concluded.

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More BS from them trying to kill us.

They can't get us to take the flu vaccine, so now they are after us to get this by scaring us into taking this one because supposedly our kids will get sick.

They even had a commercial with Jennifer Lopez pushing it too.

Originally Posted by GoodVibrations

More BS from them trying to kill us.

They can't get us to take the flu vaccine, so now they are after us to get this by scaring us into taking this one because supposedly our kids will get sick.

They even had a commercial with Jennifer Lopez pushing it too.

Hundreds of millions of people worldwide took the fly shots last year and they didn't die.

More BS from them trying to kill us.

They can't get us to take the flu vaccine, so now they are after us to get this by scaring us into taking this one because supposedly our kids will get sick.

They even had a commercial with Jennifer Lopez pushing it too.

JohnDoe2,

Not yet. Vaccines work very slowly.

Sometimes the bad effect of a vaccine is immediate.

Here a teen was paralyzed right after the vaccine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXKjX78i ... r_embedded

Why would "they"want to kill everyone?
If they kill everyone there is no one to do the work
and no one to pay taxes, and their salaries.

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My girl works with 70 to a 100 people. Every yr. they get flu shots and every yr. they're out of work 2 weeks out of the yr. cause they're sick. She's never gotten a flu shot and I've only seen her sick a couple of times in 26yrs. I just could never afford the $25.00 but I've only had the flu a couple of times in my life. One of the few times being poor pays off damn. And the whooping cough yeah I work with and have worked with illegals for years and I've seen first hand a few of these guys coughing so bad I had to ask if they needed an ambulance. Of course they didn't under stand a thing I was saying. I stayed across the roof. It sounds like it starting in cal. what a surprise.

The elites don't want to kill everyone - just 90% of us...They can then control us better.

Vaccines is one way that they accomplish that goal among many other avenues.