Whooping cough appears to be back, with a vengeance. It is now an epidemic in California. You need to know that it is serious business.
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Calitics has the story about that whooping cough epidemic:
With whooping cough now at epidemic levels, it's becoming clear that one of the primary culprits is the idiotic trend over the last 10 years of parents, mostly affluent whites, opting out of vaccination out of a baseless fear that the…
I was in elementary school when polio vaccine came out. Maybe the anti-vac crowd can bring polio back from the grave, and the nation can also enjoy mumps, measles, and chicken pox like I did.
I am in California and can attest to the widespread nature of the epidemic. I know of at least half a dozen people who had or have it, including me and my SO. Mine was April/May this year: 6 weeks of not being able to sleep due to coughing in the early part, then from pain in the chest from a probable cracked rib caused by so much coughing.
I am a generally healthy 30-something - I can understand how bad getting it is for infants and older people.