Re: Interesting hospital visit

"Donna Evleth" <devleth@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:BFC8C32F.21344%devleth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>> Comment on the crowded ER. Seems LA is having both a real whooping
>> cough epidemic and a hyped up scare about bird flu. Both result in
>> lots of people in the ER.
>
> Whooping cough??? There have been vaccines for this for 70 years. Why is
> there an epidemic in Los Angeles where I was born and was vaccinated
> against
> whooping cough 70 years ago?
>
> Donna Evleth
>

Maybe too many people refusing to get their kids vaccinated because of
possible (unproven) side effects. And they have forgotten what the diseases
themselves can do because we haven't had a lot of epidemics lately.
bj


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