11 infants caught whooping cough from nurse

June 6, 2008

Well, here's case-in-point for a coupel of arguments:

1. The nurse that transmitted Whooping Cough to the infants WAS

VACCINATED, further proving the effiacy of the vaccine is not 100%;

2. All of the infants recovered, further proving the disease isn't as

" deadly " as the CDC, AAP, BigPharma and government would have us

believe

11 infants caught whooping cough from nurse

Health care worker had symptoms while working in newborn nursery

updated 5:08 p.m. MT, Thurs., June. 5, 2008

NEW YORK - Public health officials investigating a 2004 outbreak of

whooping cough, or pertussis, among newborns in Texas identified the

source as a health-care worker where the babies were born.

Staff members at a children's hospital in Texas noticed that six

infants admitted with whooping cough had been born during the first

half of June at the same general hospital.

A review of records uncovered a total of 11 such infants, on average

about a month old, whose symptoms included cough, congestion, vomiting

and arrested breathing. Nine infants had to be admitted to the

hospital, including five treated in the intensive care unit.

According to their report in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly

Report, published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,

J. L. Hood and colleagues identified a 24-year-old health-care worker

who had symptoms of cough, which brought on vomiting, and difficulty

breathing while working in the newborn nursery from early June until

mid July.

During that time she directly cared for 113 infants, including the 11

who came down with whooping cough.

All the babies recovered after treatment.

The health-care worker in this case had been fully immunized against

pertussis during childhood. However, the CDC points out in an

editorial note that the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices

recommends that health-care workers with direct patient contact and

adults who have close contact with infants should be given the Tdap

(tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid and acellular pertussis)

vaccine.

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