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Utah County dealing with record whooping cough cases


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Updated: 12/16/2011 4:06 pm | Published: 12/16/2011 3:57 pm
Whooping cough - Pertussis
Whooping cough - Pertussis
PROVO, Utah (ABC 4 News) - A record numberof Whooping Cough cases have been reported in Utah County.

"We have seen the highest rate of pertussis in the county in five years," said Dr. Joseph Miner, Utah County Health Department executive director.

According to the Utah County Health Dept., there have been more than 155 confirmed cases of the disease reported recently.

UCHD said that there were only 38 cases in 2010, placing the county well over the national average.

According to Miner, there haven't been numbers like that since 2005/2006.

Pertussis is known for uncontrollable, violent coughing which often makes it hard to breathe. After fits of many coughs, someone with pertussis often needs to take deep breathes which result in a "whooping" sound. Pertussis affects people of all ages who are not current on their immunizations, but the most serious complications are seen commonly in infants and young children and can be fatal, especially in babies less than one year of age.

For information on UCHD vaccine clinics, please see www.UtahCountyHealth.org/immunizations or call 801-851-7024. For information of pertussis, please see www.cdc.gov/pertussis.

----Information from: The Utah County Health Department.


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thewholetruth - 12/18/2011 12:18 AM
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Parkster, why don't you ask the right question? How many of those infected were immunized? Love how people jump to conclusions without the facts.

Parkster - 12/17/2011 10:12 PM
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So are we to believe from what the author of this post says that we should not trust ANY of the vaccines and that because we have taken these vaccines we will be the receiver of many diseases of the body? Does this include flu shots? Maybe the unvaccinated aren't responsible for the whooping cough, but they will need to accept responsibilty for major problems ahead in the future for foregoing vaccines now.

PatrickThomas - 12/17/2011 6:03 PM
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The vaccine doesn't work and unvaccinated aren't to blame. I have made the following compilation that many of you may find very useful: "A collection of mainstream news reports and studies exploding the whooping cough vaccine myth" - http://www.dailypaul.com/167931/a-collection-of-mainstream-news-reports-and-studies-exploding-the-whooping-cough-vaccine-myth Taken from my above collection, we have the recent mainstream news of a mainstream study that the vaccine is completely useless: "Whooping cough vaccine falters after just 3 years, less protection than believed" http://ca.news.yahoo.com/childhood-whooping-cough-vaccination-falters-3-years-small-150725679.html Excerpts: "Witt said that when he started the study he expected to see the illness concentrated in unvaccinated people. But more than 80 per cent of the children who developed whooping cough in Witt's study were fully vaccinated." ?"I was disturbed to find maybe we had a little more confidence in the vaccine than it might deserve," said the lead researcher, Dr. David Witt, chief of infectious disease at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Rafael, California. -------------------------------------- "Did Poor Vaccine Response Contribute to California’s Whooping Cough Outbreak?" http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/09/vaccine-response-pertussis/ "The greatest concern", Witt said, "is that the children who were presumed to be protected, but apparently were not, could have served as a transmitter of infection to others in their families and neighborhoods ..." -------------------------------------------------- So where is the formal apology to the unvaccinated for falsely being blamed for these outbreaks? The vaccine is a complete failure, as I have demonstrated above. The true culprits are the eating of poor diets and relying on toxic, man-made serums which bestow a lifetime of autoimmune problems and neurological disorders - NOT health or immunity.
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