Re: Interesting hospital visit


"bj" <bjones44@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Donna Evleth" <devleth@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> 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?

>
> 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.

We don't routinely vaccinate against whooping cough over here. Horrid
disease - I spent a very ugly couple of nights in the shower with my kid a
few years back, keeping the humidity as high as possible whilst she worked
it through.

Nicky.

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