Washington state reaches epidemic levels of whooping cough
Nurse Susan Peel gives a whooping cough vaccination to a student at Inderkum High School on Sept. 19, 2011, in Sacramento, Calif.
/ AP/Rich Pedroncelli"We're very concerned about the continued rapid increase in reported cases," said Secretary of Health Mary Selecky said in the press release. "This disease can be very serious for young babies, who often get whooping cough from adults and other family members. We want all teens and adults who haven't had Tdap to be vaccinated to help protect babies that are too young for the vaccine."
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According to the Center for Disease Control, whooping cough - real name pertussis - is a common disease in the U.S. It has periodic occurrences every three to five years, with more frequent outbreaks.
The National Institute of Health reports that the disease is an upper respiratory infection caused by a bacteria. Severe coughing starts 10 to 12 days after being exposed to the bacteria, but the infection can last about six weeks. When a person sneezes or coughs - creating a deep "whooping" sound - the bacteria spreads through particles in the air. Left untreated in infants, it can cause disability and possibly death. It can infect people of all ages.
One of the big problems whooping cough is posing right now is that the vaccination shots, which are usually given to children, can wear off over time. The Washington State Department of Health is recommending that everyone checks their vaccination records to see if they are up to date, and those age 11 or older get a whooping cough booster shot, known as a Tdap, to prevent the spread to infants. All children under 19 will receive a free vaccine at any of the state's participating Childhood Vaccine Program locations.
A federal advisory board voted in late February to recommend that all those 65 and older who haven't got a whooping cough shot as an adult should get one, HealthPop reported. The adult vaccine combines protection against tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough, and costs about $35 a dose.
The waning effect of the vaccines was also observed in a March 2012 study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Researchers in California observed 132 patients under the age of 18 who tested positive for whooping cough. They found out that 81 percent of them were up to date with their whooping cough shots, 11 percent did not complete the series and eight percent received no vaccination whatsoever.
Regardless if they were vaccinated or not, the study revealed that the number of whooping cough cases peaked around the pre-teen ages. On average, the researchers aid there were 36 cases for every 10,000 children between 2-7 who were fully immunized that got whooping cough. The number goes up to 245 out of 10,000 with the kids between 8 and 12. That number dropped drastically after the kids reached 13, possibly because most people receive the booster shot at the age of 12.
"The longer you went from your last vaccine, the greater your risk of disease," Witt told Reuters Health.
California is an especially interesting case to investigate because they recently had an outbreak of the disease in 2010. There were 9,143 cases observed, including 10 infant deaths - the most reported in 63 years.
During a conference call with The Columbian, Washington state secretary of health Mary Selecky said the epidemic has and will probably affect much more people. They estimate only 10 to 12 percent of cases are reported.
"It's probably just the tip of the iceberg," Selecky said. "We really know in public health that this is under-reported."
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Back in the early 1900s almost 1 in 5 children died from infectious diseases. Diseases like measles still kill children or cause permanent brain damage or deafness. It's the pinnacle of hypocrisy for someone to cherry-pick a few studies, take them out of context and spam the comments section with false information. Sure, it'd be great if everyone had natural immunity to everything, but would you want to get every major infectious disease just to be immune to it later? Completely makes no sense.
Kids used to die frequently from a disease called Epiglottitis - which is where the epiglottis, which prevents you from swallowing food down your windpipe when you swallow, swells up and blocks your airway. It's caused by a bacteria called Hemophilus influenzae. Now that we vaccinate against this bacteria, we NEVER see cases of this illness anymore (it's become extremely rare). That's just one of the many life-saving effects of vaccines.
Please, talk to your doctor if you have any questions about vaccination, don't take my or anyone else's comments at face value especially on the internet. You need to find out the truth from an expert.
(Mainstream study documents vaccine causing mutation, spreading of whooping cough):
Acellular pertussis vaccination enhances B. parapertussis colonization
"....vaccination led to a 40-fold enhancement of B. parapertussis colonization in the lungs of mice.....these data suggest that the vaccine may be contributing to the observed rise in whooping cough incidence over the last decade by promoting B. parapertussis infection."
http://www.cidd.psu.edu/research/synopses/acellular-vaccine-enhancement-b.-parapertussis
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The vaccination is a complete failure and the unvaccinated are not to blame. I have proof:
A collection of mainstream news reports and studies exploding the whooping cough vaccine myth
http://www.dailypaul.com/167931/a-collection-of-mainstream-news-reports-and-studies-exploding-the-whooping-cough-vaccine-myth
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(Mainstream study documents vaccine causing mutation, spreading of whooping cough):
Acellular pertussis vaccination enhances B. parapertussis colonization
"....vaccination led to a 40-fold enhancement of B. parapertussis colonization in the lungs of mice.....these data suggest that the vaccine may be contributing to the observed rise in whooping cough incidence over the last decade by promoting B. parapertussis infection."
http://www.cidd.psu.edu/research/synopses/acellular-vaccine-enhancement-b.-parapertussis
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(Vaccine failure in NY):
"179 reported cases in Suffolk County, NY - according to Suffolk health officials, all those affected had been immunized in the past."
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Whooping-Cough-Triple-Suffolk-County-Long-Island-132659533.html?fb_comment_id=fbc_10150370350412500_19430267_10150380172037500#fb6dbdf11bd1de
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North Carolinians confused as to why all 103 cases fully vaxed and no unvaccinated kids got it
(Excerpts): .... (the) outbreak...has grown to include more than 103 cases.....SHAPLEY-QUINN SAID there's no instance of a child who had not been vaccinated getting pertussis....
(SHOT DOWN !!!) Board member Tony Rose had asked for information about the number of students who don't get vaccinations because of religious or other reasons. "I think it's 15 kids in your entire system (who) have an exemption for medical or religious reasons," Shapley-Quinn said. None of the pertussis cases involved those students, she said.
Bass said the system has a "really good vaccination rate," which "raises questions about the vaccine itself" and its effectiveness in preventing the disease.
http://www.thetimesnews.com/news/school-53424-department-health.html
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Your mainstream medical paradigm has everything distorted
Getting an infectious disease is not a death sentence unless you are malnourished and/or are treated with drugs which SUPPRESS the immune system's ability to fight infections and throw-off toxins.
Common sense in life - learn from the demise of the bees due to being overly-medicated
(Think of humans and vaccines/drugs while reading this about bees):
http://www.backyardhive.com/Articles_on_Beekeeping/Featured_article/Organic_Beekeeping_Conference_2010/
"One last point of Sam Comfort's talk that I found quite shocking was about his experience adding chemicals to hives while working for commercial beekeepers. Sam told of a story about opening hives filled with dead bees overrun with thousands of verroa mites crawling everywhere, even over the strip of a deadly chemical called formic acid that was meant to kill them. The pests and diseases that we kill with chemicals always seem to build up resistance to the chemicals, while leaving the creatures we try to protect in harms way. What if instead of focusing on killing the "enemy" we focused on helping the friend. I feel like the best way we can support the honeybees is to help them to help themselves by supporting their whole being and helping them build up their immune systems so they have the knowledge to stay wild and healthy with the tools and strength to fight their own battles."
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Mainstream study on PubMed admitting vaccine is useless AND that those who have natural immunity enjoy a much longer period of being immune than those vaccinated:
"Estimating the duration of pertussis immunity using epidemiological signatures"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19876392
Abstract
Case notifications of pertussis have shown an increase in a number of countries with high rates of routine pediatric immunization. This has led to significant public health concerns over a possible pertussis re-emergence. A leading proposed explanation for the observed increase in incidence is the loss of immunity to pertussis, which is known to occur after both natural infection and vaccination. Little is known, however, about the typical duration of immunity and its epidemiological implications. Here, we analyze a simple mathematical model, exploring specifically the inter-epidemic period and fade-out frequency. These predictions are then contrasted with detailed incidence data for England and Wales. We find model output to be most sensitive to assumptions concerning naturally acquired immunity, which allows us to estimate the average duration of immunity. Our results support a period of natural immunity that is, on average, long-lasting (at least 30 years) but inherently variable.
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Did you hear that folks?
"Our results support a period of natural immunity that is, on average, long-lasting (at least 30 years) but inherently variable."
Nothing beats natural immunity. We are weakening the human race by becoming reliant on toxic, man-made substances which are attempting to "trick" our immune systems but instead are polluting our cells and negatively-altering our DNA.
Really? Our best defense against getting sick is to have formaldehyde, aluminum, mercury, aborted fetal tissue, phenol, polysorbate 80, foreign animal proteins/DNA direct-injected into our muscle tissue?
I smell a rat.
What about how people should be consuming all 90-some-odd vitamins, minerals and amino acids in order to attain/retain their health? What about the consumption of live enzymes? What about getting plenty of sleep? What about reducing stress? What about getting exercise? What about breast feeding? What about the avoidance toxins and/or detoxing the body? What about the avoidance of Cokes and Count Chocula? Why is it always about vaccines, vaccines and more vaccines?
Health does NOT come from the end of a needle.