Washington whooping cough epidemic spurs release of extra funds, call for CDC help

Nurse Susan Peel gives a whooping cough vaccination to a student at Inderkum High School, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, in Sacramento, Calif.

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(CBS/AP) SEATTLE -- The Washington State Health Department is asking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help battle the state's whooping cough epidemic that has sickened more than 1,100 people.

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Health Secretary Mary Selecky is asking the CDC to send a special team of investigators and an epidemiologist. Selecky declared on April 3 that whooping cough, or pertussis, was an epidemic in the state, HealthPop reported. At the time there were 640 cases reported in 23 counties in the state. Now, more than 1,100 cases have been reported this year - 10 times the number at this time last year.

Gov. Chris Gregoire announced Thursday the state is putting $90,000 into a public awareness campaign and diverting some federal money to pay for 27,000 doses of vaccine.

"I've been following the epidemic closely and the continued increase in cases has me very concerned about the health of our residents," Gregoire said in a statement. "I'm especially concerned about the vulnerable babies in our communities that are too young to be fully immunized. These actions will help state and local health leaders get vaccine into people's arms so we can stem the tide."

Adults in the state are urged to get the shot to prevent spreading the disease to infants. That advice echoes the recommendation from the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices in February, that said all U.S. adults should get the whooping cough vaccine. Only 8 percent of adults under 65 have been vaccinated, but about 70 percent of adolescents have, according to the CDC.

In 2010, a whooping cough epidemic in California contributed to the push to vaccinate more adults. That epidemic infected 9,000 people and killed ten babies, HealthPop reported.

The CDC has more on whooping cough.

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" The British study that linked autism to childhood vaccines was an elaborate fraud that has done long-lasting damage to public health. The study has been retracted, and the doctor responsible has had his license revoked."

Can the parents who deliberately chose not to have their children vaccinated be held liable for any of these contagious outbreaks ?

[kennethakatscott]

I wanted to let you know where things stand right now with the epidemic.

We are pushing to have a bill created, and Rick Larsen has said it is an excellent idea.

I also just sent a quote to the DOH to send a postcard to every household in Washington which comes up to about the money they have to spend. I have attached the quote for your review. Another baby died, this time in Idaho, but if we send these public health warning notices to everyone in the state, they will all have been told. The DOH current plan is to spend that money on billboards and more radio time, but the only way to know you have actually reached everyone in the state is to send it directly to them. We need help getting Kaliah's bill to the public.

This bill requires the CDC to send an official public health notice in the event of an epidemic anywhere in the country. It is now up to state and local health departments to decide what an epidemic is and who they should tell. This should not be the case. It should be a Federal master plan to inform any citizen, anywhere, in the event of an epidemic in their area.

It is a law that we have to tell the DOH is we have a communicable disease, but they do not have to tell us anything. I went to the top of the Health and Human Services at the Nation level, Bruce Gellin, and he said he initiate the tell the providers policy years ago, and he still stands by that policy today.

I have thousands of emails where the county and state say they do not have to tell the citizens and that telling the providers is enough. In March, I sent them photos of a new mother with her 10 day old baby at a public bouncy house and pleaded with them to tell here she is in the middle of an epidemic zone!

They were not going to tell the citizens at all. I initiate the public service announcement and the postcards. Without those efforts there would have been nothing.

The epidemic for the state started the first week of January and they didn't say anything until the 3rd of April and that is only because we threatened them with bad press. We were above epidemic levels in 2005 and 2010, but they never said anything to anyone.

Make it a mandated law that the CDC tells you when and where WHEN IT HAPPENS. Sign and Share Kaliah's bill. Now that the CDC will be in town next week it is the perfect time to tell the government what you want.

Together we can do this!!

http://www.change.org/petitions/kaliah-s-bill-to-require-cdc-notice-to-citizens-in-epidemic

We are going to take this to the streets and want to know if you can help us!


Kat

[lissalpn]

if the vaccinations are a complete failure, why don't my kids have whooping cough, measles, polio, varicella...please tell me...

[Silvermaran]

Because using HeLa cells from a woman who had Syphilis gave them the God Like protein formerly known as prion now known as the real AIDS causing all syndromes of unknown origin. Vaccine do not protect from anything. They simply dumb down their immune systems so they have no fight. Which is why we have 1 in 29 kids today with Autism infections and why all the HIV/AIDS pts. died when they just treated the virus they found and called it done. But they knew in 1985 what they had done when MadCow and Lyme all broke out within 4 yrs. of AIDS. Because it was all the same thing. And let them continue because it was very profitable to find all the junk to just treat the syndromes and the cancers instead of the infections in hiding. Introducing the real AIDS they blessed us with from vaccines.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yOno_2m_8LY
Which the syndromes are only dependent on the infections, how many, what kinds, and the immune system function they are in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRQ-NhEkLXU&feature=youtu.be
A bad case but not near the worst...They die quickly from multiple infections like all the HIV pts. used to before stupid started treating them for all the infections.
http://mbio.asm.org/content/3/3/e00025-12
Remarkably, most of the enriched genes appear to have been acquired from nonspirochetes, particularly clostridia, in several massive horizontal gene transfer events (>40% of the total number of genes in each genome).
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So if it shares its genes with you that is all that is seen...

[Magic-Sky-Daddy]

For every baby that dies an Anti-Vax advocate should be brought up on murder charges.

[CutterJohn17]

For every baby that dies, the vaccinated parent is the most likly cause. How truly cold and hartless for you to have them arrested in this time of sorrow.

[Patrick_Thomas]

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.

[lissalpn]

So...comsuming 90 plus vitamins daily will protect us from diseases like whooping cough? Where is YOUR research. I understand that everyone is entitled to their own opinion...and a healthy lifestyle is important, but I really feel that there are people out there who DO live a healthy lifestyle and STILL end up with diseases like cancer, or the flu.

[Yellow-Bumper-Car]

You forgot Yoga.

Far fetched but if there were a vaccine available today that would keep babies and children from being burned would you do it?

[Patrick_Thomas]

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

[Nexuszzz]

I guess in the paradise of the US you have the right to be an exceptional fool. I grew up in the UK and prior to vaccinations many diseases were widespread and after a vaccination program diseases like Whooping Cough were very rare. I now live in Australia.

Also the article in Australia talks about the less effective nature of a new variety of vaccination. Ergo, these people are vulnerable to the disease AND SO ARE THE UNVACCINATED and this will add to the problem as they are not protected. Get your facts right rather than spouting ignorance. The Doctor is commenting on effectiveness.

Suggesting that taking high levels of vitamins also stupid as excessive intake can be harmful and also a false protection.

[maxinerwb]

Where all of sudden did this Whooping Cough come from. Are these people not getting shots for their kids. When my kids were borne they got all their shots as they should. I think it's this pathology that the yuppies think shots give kids Autism. I believe that autism starts with people having kids way too late in life and also not really interacting with their kids.

[Patrick_Thomas]

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