Concerns Raised Over Whooping Cough Vaccine's Potency

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Source: http://www.10news.com/news/26137516/detail.html

Concerns Raised Over Whooping Cough Vaccine's Potency
2 Newborns In San Diego Have Died From Whooping Cough

POSTED: 8:41 pm PST December 14, 2010
UPDATED: 9:38 pm PST December 14, 2010

SAN DIEGO -- A 10News joint investigation with KPBS and the Watchdog Institute is raising serious concerns about whether the whooping cough or pertussis vaccine is actually doing its job...

...According to the numbers, the answer could lie in the vaccines and how effective they truly are. In the first 11 months of the year, nearly 1,000 adults and children have tested positive for whooping cough. More than half of them had been vaccinated...

 

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Re: Concerns Raised Over Whooping Cough Vaccine's Potency

Source: http://www.kpbs.org/news/2010/dec/16/behind-whooping-cough-story/


Investigating Whooping Cough
By Kevin Crowe, Watchdog Institute

December 16, 2010

SAN DIEGO ? For the past four months, KPBS and the Watchdog Institute have tracked the whooping cough epidemic across California and other affected states. In an effort to better understand who is getting sick, we examined data from San Diego County Health and Human Services agency that contained immunization history for each person diagnosed with pertussis. In September, KPBS reported that almost two-thirds of the people diagnosed with pertussis in San Diego County had been up to date on their immunizations. The figure surprised local health officials...

...The documentary, When Immunity Fails: The Whooping Cough Epidemic, airs Thursday, Dec. 16th at 9:30 pm on KPBS TV.

 

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Source: http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/swcounty/article_cdd5eac3-2d89-54cd-b421-a668899709a4.html

REGION: Most pertussis cases were vaccinated, data show
Expert says whopping cough mutating, becoming more infectious


By JOANNE FARYON, KPBS, and KEVIN CROWE, Watchdog Institute North County Times - Californian | Posted: Thursday, December 16, 2010 6:55 pm

As California experiences its worst whooping cough outbreak in more than 60 years, health officials across the country trumpet vaccinations to protect against the disease.

The number of cases of the disease in San Diego County this year has reached a record 1,046 as of mid-December and may triple the region's previous record by year's end, according to the county Department of Health and Human Services.

Data collected from around this state and several others show that many people who have come down with whooping cough had been immunized.

Reporters from KPBS and the Watchdog Institute, a nonprofit investigative center based at San Diego State University, collected and analyzed reports from areas with high rates of infection, and they traveled from Los Angeles to the Netherlands to find out why so many people are getting sick.

Two of the world's most respected experts on the whooping cough, which is also known as pertussis, have very different views. Dr. James Cherry, a prominent researcher at UCLA, says increased awareness of whooping cough has led to more reports of it. However, Dr. Fritz Mooi, a well-known Dutch scientist who has been studying mutations of the pertussis bacteria for 15 years, said a more virulent strain of bacteria is contributing to outbreaks...


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Source: http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_D_whooping20.3b67bb2.html

Many whooping cough victims have been immunized
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11:07 PM PST on Sunday, December 19, 2010

By JOANNE FARYON
Kpbs Watchdog Institute

As California experiences its worst whooping cough outbreak in more than 60 years, some health officials across the country are trumpeting vaccination as the means to protect against the disease.

But data collected from around this state and several others show that many people who have come down with whooping cough were afflicted after having been immunized...