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In reply to the discussion: I've Got Whooping Cough. Thanks a Lot, Jenny McCarthy. [View all]dem in texas
(2,674 posts)Because J. McCarthy and other so called experts can get on the talk shows. The media does not want to have the real experts; doctors and scientists, etc on their shows. Too dull, no blond hair and big boobs.
Then the worst part is that people actually listen to these so called celebrities and take their advice. Please read the book, The Panic Virus, which deals with this subject in depth.
The USA is not the only country to have a problem with a resurgence of childhood disease. This is also going on in England and some of the Scandinavian countries.
I am old enough to remember when there was no vaccine for whopping cough. One of the scariest things I ever saw was when a neighbor girl who was about 20 months old had whooping cough. She was coughing and blue, gasping for air. My mother and her mother rushed her to the hospital and she survived. Shortly after this, the whooping cough vaccine became available. I was in the first or second grade and we were lined up at school to get a shot to prevent it. Not any parent prevented their child from getting the vaccine, all were thankful to have it.