California whooping cough outbreak surpasses the 1950 outbreak
The whooping cough outbreak that has gripped California this year has just surpassed 1950 in number of cases reported. Here are the latest numbers as reported by the California Department of Public...
View ArticleWhooping cough outbreak prompts Oklahoma to call for immunizations
READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE AT NEWSOK.COM A whooping cough outbreak that has sickened 66 people in Oklahoma, has health officials calling for people to get vaccinated. A national whooping cough...
View ArticleCalifornia Whooping Cough Update as of 11-30-2010
The whooping cough outbreak that has gripped California this year continues to infect and sicken people. In the year 2010, as of 11-30-2010, California has logged the highest number of cases in 63...
View ArticleU.S. whooping cough update
The whooping cough has not affected only California, although it is at its worst there, with over 7,000 cases and 10 infant deaths so far. The disease has also affected other states. Here are the...
View ArticleNew Calif. law requires vaccine for grades 7-12
READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT SFGATE.COM (12-31) 11:06 PST Los Angeles, CA (AP) – California teens need to be up to date on their whooping cough shots before starting classes next fall in order to be in...
View ArticleFlash News – 01/28/11
Studies show rotavirus vaccine very effective in reducing rotavirus related, and all-cause, diarrhea hospitalizations rates – Twelve studies published as a special supplement in The Pediatric...
View ArticleWhooping cough kills Australian infant
Following the 10 victims of whooping cough in California last year, another baby has been killed by it, this time in Melbourne, Australia, the first such death in the area since 2004. The baby was only...
View ArticleFlash News – 02/17/2011
Greek swine flu deaths reach 62 – 14 additional deaths have been recorded in Greece due to swine flu, bringing the total number of fatalities for the country to 62. None of the latest 14 deaths had...
View ArticleFlash News – 04/07/2011
Private Virginia school temporarily closes down due to whooping cough outbreak – A Virginia private school (Blue Mountain School) that does not require parents to provide vaccination proof for its...
View ArticleFlash News – 04/24/2011
150 sick, 4 childrend dead of whooping cough in Papua New Guinea – Four children have been killed by whooping cough so far this year in Papua New Guinea, according to Ausralia Network News. The...
View ArticleVaccine Preventable Suffering – Kailis Smith
Age at death – 9 weeks Cause of death – Whooping cough Vaccination status – Unvaccinated due to young age What happened – Little Kailis was taken to the doctor with cold-like symptoms, sometime towards...
View ArticleGetting The Point: 60 Minutes on the impact of antivaccination lobbying
Fantastic report on vaccines courtesy of 60 Minutes in Australia. Share and Enjoy:
View ArticleVaccine Preventable Death – Gavin Norton
Age at death – 10 weeks Cause of death – Pertussis (whooping cough) Vaccination status – Unvaccinated due to young age What happened – When Gavin was born his parents felt “absolute joy — just...
View ArticleWhooping Cough Vaccine Protection Might Wane Sooner Than Previously Thought
According to new research by Dr. David Witt, presented at the American Society for Microbiology conference in Chicago on Monday, the protection conferred by the whooping cough vaccine, as currently...
View ArticleAmerican Academy of Pediatrics Updates Pertussis Booster Vaccine Guidelines
Pertussis, a.k.a. whooping cough is a nasty disease. It is particularly merciless with our youngest. Last year in California 10 babies died, of which 9 were under 2 months of age and were thus too...
View ArticleWhooping Cough Cases Highest Since 1999 in New York
READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT DIGITALJOURNAL Early this year, 13 diagnosed cases of whooping cough were in Smithtown, New York. As the year progressed, that number would increase drastically to 216 cases...
View ArticleWhooping Cough outbreak sickens over 140 people in Canada
A whooping cough outbreak in British Columbia, Canada has sickened more than 140 people since December, prompting Canadian Health authorities to issue a warning. Hotspots include the Fraser Valley,...
View ArticleMom talks about her 4-week-old daughter’s battle with whooping cough
Powerful testimonial; we are so happy this story had a happy ending. Share and Enjoy:
View ArticleWhooping Cough kills 23 children in Colombia
So far in 2012, whooping cough has killed 23 children under 5 years of age in Bogota, Colombia, nearly doubling the number of fatalities from last year ( 14 victims ), it is being reported. The...
View ArticleWhooping Cough Kills 13 babies in the UK in 2012
13 infants have died of whooping cough in the UK between January 1st and October 31st, 2012, preliminary data from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) shows, nearly doubling the number of fatalities...
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