reminder Many whooping cough victims have been immunized; Experts spar over prospects of new disease strain

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reminder

Health officials across the country are trumpeting pertussis

vaccinations, but a four-month investigation by KPBS and the Watchdog

Institute, a nonprofit investigative center based at San Diego State

University, has found that many people who have come down with whooping

cough have been immunized ...

In examining the pertussis epidemic, KPBS and the Watchdog Institute

collected federal, state and county statistics and consulted and

interviewed experts from Los Angeles to the Netherlands.

Keys findings included:

For pertussis cases in which vaccination histories are known, between

44 and 83 percent were of people who had been immunized, according to

data from nine California counties with high infection rates. In San

Diego County, more than two thirds of the people in this group were up to

date on their immunizations. Health officials in Ohio and Texas, two states experiencing whooping

cough outbreaks, report that of all cases, 75 and 67.5 percent

respectively, reported having received a pertussis vaccination. Today, the rate of disease in some California counties is as high as

139 per 100,000, rivaling rates before vaccines were developed. Public officials around the world rely heavily on two groups of

pertussis experts when setting vaccine policy relating to the disease.

Both groups, and many of their members,

receive money from the two leading manufacturers of pertussis

vaccine.

http://www.watchdoginstitute.org/2010/12/13/whooping-cough-epidemic-california/

Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Washington State, USA

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