Thanks for the link, @Nrdsb4. I’ll print that off and take it to my next physical.
Yes, thanks for the link. I don’t think anyone I know is getting boosters every 10 years. I see the doc this week and the chart goes with me too.
My doc has given me the booster. He keeps track of these things and tells me when it’s time for some vaccine. With him, I’ve had the shingles vac and one of the pneumonia vacs, plus the DPT booster.
I had the DPT booster last fall because we were expecting twin granddaughters. Also a flu shot…
I am so glad the our state is not so heavily involved with the anti-vax crowd, but the idea of those sweet babies being exposed to measles is just horrifying to me.
Adults have always been the reservoir for pertussis, unfortunately. Once the old adult ‘tetanus booster’ (actually tetanus and diptheria) started including pertussis for adults several years ago, we’d hoped to decrease that reservoir of teen/adult pertussis. The booster is every ten years, like always, though that may change. More often if you get a dirty cut, because of the tetanus component.
Measles outbreak now linked to cook at Emeril’s at MGM Grand in LV
http://www.abc15.com/news/national/measles-breaks-out-in-las-vegas-casino
My daughter’s boarding school had a pertussis outbreak a few years ago. Interestingly her test came back negative but both her pediatrician and the heath center staff at her school insisted it was a false negative because her symptoms were so classic and because her roommate was among those with positive test results. Both my child and her roommate had been vaccinated.
Taking our youngest to the doc for his required vaccinations for entrance to a service academy…must have a polio, dtap, and hep a AND b. I think he’s had one of the hep vaccines, so all told he will get at least 3 vaccines. And a TB test. Poor kid is not happy…I’m glad he will be up to date.
@shellz, make sure he’s up to date on his meningococcal vaccine, too. Good luck!
I understand that the whooping cough vaccine can wear off. How about immunity from contracting the actual disease? Does that immunity have a shelf life also?
From the CDC website
Thx @jaylynn! I’m pretty sure he had it, but will double check. Thankfully his doc is super on the ball!
These are the same thing. The vaccine wearing off means the immunity wears off.
@Cardinal Fang, I’m confused by your answer. The poster was asking if the immunity one gains from actually having the disease (vs. getting the vaccination) would also wear off.
@Hayden, contracting whooping cough unfortunately does not provide lifelong immunity against the disease.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/whooping-cough-outbreak-top-10-things-you-should-know/
Oh, I see. I just misunderstood the question. Sorry, never mind, my bad. Ignore #2552.
CNN reports 500 parents arrested for refusing to have their kids vaccinated for polio:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/03/asia/pakistan-polio-vaccine-arrests/index.html
So if they can have that law in Pakistan, why can’t we have that law here??
Immunity after pertussis disease does not appear to be permanent. I heard a lecture by an infectious disease physician a few years ago and the pertussis bacteria is very interesting. That bugger is crafty. Person with a history of pertussis disease are encouraged to get a dtap booster.
Saw my doctor today and asked about the vaccines. She pulled my records and showed me that they took care of the booster a couple of years ago. Also we went over the rest and I am up to date. Glad to know they are on top of it 
Nope. Not a thing. :-S