Anti-vaxers kill another child

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54. The majority of those getting sick are up-to-date with their immunizations, which kind of goes

against your "hypothesis".

New research confirms the whooping cough vaccine is failing at a higher rate than expected, and scientists are considering adding a seventh dose to the national immunization schedule published by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Two recent studies have found the majority of people getting sick are up to date with their immunizations.

Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is a cyclical disease that has spiked before. In 2004, Wisconsin reported more than 5,600 cases, according to the state.

In 2010, whooping cough cases reached epidemic proportions in California... An investigation by the nonprofit journalism group Investigative Newsource and public television station KPBS, both of San Diego, raised serious questions about the effectiveness of the vaccine, given that a majority of the people diagnosed with the illness across California had been fully immunized.

Last year in Wisconsin, the state Department of Health found that 70 percent of persons 18 or younger “were up to date for age for pertussis immunizations at illness onset.” So far in 2012, the state said, 56 percent of 162 cases of pertussis involving children age 1 or younger, the most vulnerable group, were up to date on their immunizations.

Dr. Anne Schuchat, the director for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC, stated during a recent teleconference that while there are large numbers of unvaccinated people in some parts of the country, “we don’t think those exemptors are driving this current wave.”

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/viewart/20120820/GPG0101/308200066/Whooping-cough-rise-despite-immunizations