Very important information on whooping cough - please share widely!

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This is very, very important information! For the years 2008-2010, of those for whom vaccination status was known Australia-wide, only 11% of the whooping cough cases in the 0-4 year old age group (the group with a 95% vaccination rate) were completely unvaccinated. If you can assume that at least some of the almost 1,500 children whose vaccination status was unknown would have been at least partially vaccinated (a very logical assumption to make), then the rate of those contracting the disease could be very close to the rate of those vaccinated against it. Meaning that the vaccine was completely ineffective at preventing whooping cough in this very highly-vaccinated population. This is information that had to be dragged from the government and was only provided given that certain conditions were met (read the page to find out more). Why is this kept secret? Why are we unable to find this information freely on the internet? What is the government trying to hide?http://vaccinationdilemma.com/whooping-cough-australian-children-how-many-were-vaccinatedVaccination - A Parent's DilemmaUser loginE-mail: *Password: *Create new accountRequest new passwordHome Fooling ourselves A Parent's Dilemma Parents want the truth Contact Other sitesHomeWhooping cough in Australian children - how many were vaccinated?3rd February 2012Yesterday I received permission from the Department of Health and Ageing to publish data which I received late last year (along with my comment, which had to be 'approved'). It concerns whooping cough notifications in Australia for the under-5 years age group. There were conditions attached to the publication: caveats and a link for assistance in interpreting it, all of which I have included below.As many will already be aware, Australia has seen a meteoric rise in the number of notified cases of whooping cough in the past few years. Most media commentators relate this to a lack of vaccination, however, the reports don't tell us who is getting whooping cough. Is it the un-vaccinated, the vaccinated, or is it a combination?Well, the Department now has a system in place for collecting this information in under-5-year-olds, so I put in a request and was kindly supplied with the following. It wasn't instantaneous, mind you. The request took more than a year to fulfill, and required a considerable amount of hoop-jumping and justification, although the staff I dealt with were very helpful.Here's the dataHere's what we see (my 'approved' comment):For the years 2008-2010, there were a total of 9333 cases of whooping cough reported in children aged 0-4 years. Among them were 754 who were either too young or otherwise not eligible to have been vaccinated, and 1497 for whom vaccine status was not known.Of the remaining 7082 cases whose vaccine status was known, and who were eligible to have received the vaccine, 5296 (75%) were fully vaccinated for their age. A further 986 (14%) were partly vaccinated. Only 800 (11%) were un-vaccinated.As part of the conditions for publishing this data, I have been asked by CDNA to include the following.The following caveats apply to these data:Note that notifications for this disease are available online athttp://www9.health.gov.au/cda/Source/CDA-index.cfmNotification data from NNDSS are supplied by States and Territories and are subject to retrospective revision.The current Australian national notifiable disease case definition for measles and pertussis can be found online:http://www.health.gov.au/casedefinitions. Please note that some jurisdictions may not follow the case definition strictly and adherence may vary between jurisdictions. Case definitions are also reviewed and updated over time resulting in the potential for variation when comparing current to historical data.Notifications to NNDSS rely on a largely passive surveillance system which may result in an underestimation of the total number of cases in the community at any given time.For assistance in interpreting the data please visithttp://www.immunise.health.gov.au/internet/immunise/publishing.nsf/Conte...Purchase a BOOK!eBOOK IMMEDIATE DOWNLOAD!Hot off the press!Originally published Feb 2011Latest revision January 2012107 pages28 original graphsBE ARMED WITH THE FACTS!eBook -- $10AUDClick to purchase via PaypalOR...Original from 1997eBook -- $6 AUDClick to purchase via PaypalSwedish translation provided by Gun Ostling can be download in two parts immediately belowPART IPART IIAlternatively you can purchase a printed book by clicking on the following icons (you will be redirected to distributor sites).UK buyers - click HEREAustralian buyers - click HEREKoreanCopyright 2010 Greg Beattie Drupal theme by Tentmaker Web Design | Valid XHTML and CSS

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