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California Whooping Cough Cases "an Epidemic"

Posted by timothy on from the hooting-and-hollering-cough-looks-on-enviously dept.

As reported by the San Jose Mercury News, the state of California is "in the throes of a whooping cough epidemic, state health department officials announced Friday. Dr. Ron Chapman, director of the California Department of Public Health, said 3,458 cases of whooping cough have been reported since Jan. 1 -- including 800 in the past two weeks. That total is more than all the cases reported in 2013." Public broadcaster KPBS notes that of the 621 people known to have come down with whooping cough in San Diego county, the vast majority (85 percent) were up to date on their immunizations.

4 of 387 comments (clear)

  1. Re:So there's 100 or so unimmunized? by russotto · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or maybe it's because the current acellular pertussis vaccine just doesn't work all that well.

  2. I like your style! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Blaming those percent that choose to decide what they put into their own bodies is just peer pressure and bullying. And, guess what, if you were actually "immunised" you wouldn't be able to catch it from them, or the evolved strains...

    So, only the stupid and superstitious people who refuse to get vacinated will get sick and hopefully die and clean up the gene pool?

    I like it!

  3. Re:So there's 100 or so unimmunized? by ganjadude · · Score: 4, Funny

    If only there was a shot which cured idiocy.

    cyanide?

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    have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
  4. Re:So there's 100 or so unimmunized? by houstonbofh · · Score: 2, Funny

    If only there was a shot which cured idiocy.

    There are several... 9mm .45 cal 7.62x39