Study: Whooping cough outbreak

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Study: Whooping cough outbreak linked to vaccinated children

San - An investigation by California doctors has revealed that the state's latest outbreak of whooping cough centered around children who had already received the whooping cough vaccine, Reuters reports.

The study, led by infectious disease specialist Dr. Witt, was initiated after an unusually large number of whooping cough cases were admitted to Kaiser Permanente Hospital in San , California in 2010. After examining the records of juvenile whooping cough patients over an 8-month period, the doctors discovered that 81 percent of patients had received the full series of whooping cough shots, and 11 percent had received only some of the shots. The remaining 8 percent had not received any immunizations for whooping cough. "What was very surprising was the majority of cases were in fully vaccinated children," Witt said. "That's what started catching our attention."

After further analysis, Witt and his team concluded that the effectiveness of the vaccine wears off after several years, creating the need for additional inoculations.(OR maybe the original shots NEVER worked, but let's sell the public some more of them.)

Unfortunately, drug maker Glaxo Kline (GSK), the manufacturer of the whooping cough vaccine, did not bother to perform long-term studies of its effectiveness. A company spokesperson confirmed this disturbing fact in an email to Reuters, stating that GSK never studied the duration of the vaccine's protection after the shot was given to four- to six-year-olds.

Dr. Tom , a medical epidemiologist with the Center for Disease Control (CDC), also provided a troubling analysis of the situation. "It's likely if we move doses around we'd shift the burden of disease, but not necessarily reduce it," he said.

(So who gets the 'new improved' burden of the disease?)Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/323187#ixzz1sVwVz9Rz

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