Whooping cough cases reach highest level in a decade

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Source: NBC News

Dec. 23, 2024, 1:01 PM EST


Whooping cough cases in the U.S. have reached the highest annual total in a decade, with as many cases tallied in the last 12 weeks as in the entire rest of the year.

As of mid-September, about 14,500 cases had been recorded nationwide since the beginning of the year. That number climbed to more than 32,000 as of Dec. 14, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

That's a six-fold increase from the same time in 2023, when more than 5,100 cases had been recorded. The total for 2022 was even lower, at roughly 3,000 cases.

Experts attribute the high case tally to a combination of factors. For one, whooping cough cases dropped to levels far lower than average during the Covid pandemic, so a jump back to pre-pandemic patterns was expected. However, this year’s total is significantly higher than 2019’s, likely due to waning vaccine protection, lower vaccination rates and improved testing, they said.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/whooping-cough-cases-symptoms-rcna182678

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. tRump chortles: "Ain't we so smart for leaving the WHO!" . . . . nt

[Richard D]

2. It's a horrible disease

I feel sorry for all the children whose parents were frightened out of vaccinations by Brain Worm, et.al.

[murielm99]

4. I remember when our pediatrician

urged us not to forget those vaccinations for our children. His voice was wistful. He said he had seen a child die of that disease.

My mother claims I had it and survived it as a child. I am 76. There probably was no vaccine to prevent it when I was small.

[BonnieJW]

7. You're right

I'm 75 and just got a DPT shot since I didn't get one as a child. With all the talk of eliminating vaccines, pandemics are right around the corner

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Let's Hear It For Whooping Cough!

And measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, and anything else I might have missed.

Sheesh.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. My grandmother told me that she (and her friend) both had whooping cough as children in the early 1900s

And here I thought it had been eradicated since then.

[EarthFirst]

6. What a sick, twisted, demented mindset one must have...

…to expose one’s child to preventable disease just to “own the libs” with their junk science; YouTube University worldview on vaccine research.

[Timeflyer]

8. The Wretched Right really doesn't care about children once they're past the pre-born stage.

Anyone who's watched infants coughing and struggling to breath...

[Martin68]

9. We can thank anti-taxers for the increase. If RFK gets his way, the same will happen with polio and

numerous other easily prevented diseases. Is smallpox going to make a comeback?

[womanofthehills]

10. The only way smallpox will make a comeback is if it gets out of a lab

“Smallpox Was Eradicated 40 Years Ago, So Why Are the U.S. and Russia Still Holding Stocks of the Virus?”

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On 9 December, 1979, health officials declared smallpox as the first and only human disease to be eradicated in what is considered the greatest achievement of modern medicine. Four decades on, the U.S. and Russia still maintain samples of the potentially deadly virus, and the debate on whether they should be kept or destroyed rages on....To this day, only two remaining stocks of the variola virus are known to exist. They are kept under high-security conditions at a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention laboratory in Atlanta, and at Russia's State Research Centre of Virology and Biotechnology (Vector) in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk. Everything known about their location is in the public domain— except for the exact rooms and freezers where the samples are kept, David Relman, professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University, told Newsweek.

https://fsi.stanford.edu/news/smallpox-was-eradicated-40-years-ago-so-why-are-us-and-russia-still-holding-stocks-virus

[Martin68]

11. I am aware that fact, but one never knows if there is actually a small pocket of asymptomatic carriers someplace in the

world. We keep thinking we've almost eradicated polio, but it keeps rearing its ugly he'd in various parts of the world. Yes, "almost" is the operative word here, and I do accept that we've probably completely eradicated smallpox, but viruses are remarkably resilient and adaptable.

[Vinca]

12. That's what makes us easy pickings for our enemies if vaccines are not given to everyone.