Freedumb! TX Whooping Cough Cases Approach 2,000 As Freedumb-Loving Citizens Evade Thug Doctors

[hatrack]

Whooping cough has reached epidemic proportions in Texas with nearly 2,000 cases reported so far this year, including two infants who died, according to health officials.

The children were too young to receive the whooping cough vaccine, state officials said. The overall number of cases likely will surpass the recent high of 3,358 in 2009, according to the state health services department.

"We're clearly having an epidemic," said Dr. Carol Baker, the director of the Center for Vaccine Awareness and Research at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston.

Dr. Lisa Cornelius, Texas infectious diseases medical officer, said: "This is extremely concerning. Pertussis is highly infectious and can cause serious complications, especially in babies, so people should take it seriously."

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http://www.nbcnews.com/health/whooping-cough-reaches-epidemic-level-texas-official-8C11088004

[NickB79]

1. Adults need to get booster shots

It's a CDC recommendation, but too many adults think that boosters were something they left behind in grade school.

[hatrack]

2. Or little plastic chairs in restaurants . . .

Seriously, just no fucking excuse for this kind of negligence and stupidity.

[PADemD]

3. Absolutely get a booster!

If you think you don't need a booster, ask yourself these questions:

Can you afford to be sick and out of work for a whole month?

How would you feel about getting no sleep from coughing all day and night?

Would you enjoy coughing so hard that you throw up everything you eat or drink?

How would you like sleeping with a bucket by your bed because you wake up coughing and do not have time to get to the bathroom to throw up?

[Delphinus]

4. My mom is in the hospital at the moment

and the nurse said to her that older people are needing to get boosters because children are not being immunized, which is making these diseases come back. She went through a whole host of them that were being recommended and I was just shocked.