Whooping cough vaccine is not a life long vaccine. Its like 5-10 years. However between the anti-vacinators and immigration we have diseases returning. As such you have people have people who have been immunized getting these diseases because their immunity has worn off. HPV is another vaccine that lasts only for a period of time. But they dont really tell you that.
One of my fellow PhD students in my dept a
has whooping cough.
Back to the antibiotics. Sigh
Syracuse cancels athletic events because of mumps outbreak.
http://cuse.com/news/2017/10/6/-cuse-mens-and-womens-lacrosse-cancel-fall-season-events.aspx
Lax players are usually from suburban, upper income families, and I assume they weren’t vaccinated by choice.
I recently started working in a pediatric office, in SE Michigan. There is a sign outside the door that asks anyone coming in to the office that has a cough to put on a mask as there have been outbreaks of whooping cough in the area.
2 restaurants in our area have been linked to hepatitis A, I ate at one of them last week so I just got the Hep A vaccine. Hep A outbreaks are common enough and often linked to restaurants that it’s not a bad idea to just get the vaccine for protection.
The mumps are likely what made George Washington sterile.
The mumps vaccine wears off over time and if you read about it about 78% of the people who are vacinated are protected. Its doesnt just strike people who were not vaccinated. There is such a thing is an ineffective batches as i had the mmr and was not immune to rubella.
At the gym the other day, a woman was talking about how vaccines can cause mental illness. I looked it up:
Researchers are a long way from proving any definitive connection, but I wonder how many parents will seize upon this as an excuse to not vaccinate. Sigh…
^^^^ That’s a reputable source.
dietz is being sarcastic. But they DO have an impressive sounding name and they DO fund research. They say it’s for causes of auto-immune disorders in children but they throw lots of money at anti-vax researchers. Sigh…
@romanigypsyeyes , just want you to know that thanks to your constant reminders here, on Friday I again got a flu shot, something I never used to do. 
I also broke down and got the first pneumonia shot, last month. (Shingles, I got as soon as they would let me!)
I asked my 94-yr old mother if she was getting a flu shot this year, and she said that she got it last year because I nagged her, but doesn’t plan to this year, for no particular reason. Of course, she heartily endorsed the idea that I have it, as well as the pneumonia vaccine, since I had pneumonia as a little kid, and have a tendency to develop bronchitis with colds, and then get asthmatic to go with it. 8-|
Despite having had polio as a child and TB as a young woman, she is as healthy as a horse. But I really wish she’d get a flu shot.
@Consolation yay!!!
It is so frustrating to watch parents not get the vax while they prod us to do it. My mom basically has to drag my dad kicking and screaming because he hates needles… and both his wife and daughter are immune-compromised. Oy!
ETA: I have had more than one person tell me to my face and literally dozens of anonymous people on facebook message me to tell me that vaccines caused my lupus. They never do seem to have an answer to my response that lupus existed for centuries before vaccines.
^^ Sometimes I wonder if people are just getting more stupid as time goes on 
^ Nah, it’s just that people’s stupidity is much more visible with the invention of social media.
Every generation has it’s utterly ridiculous paranoia. We can only hope anti-vax becomes an extreme fringe belief in a generation like paranoia over “commies” or flouride in the water has become.
ETA: You made me curious about how anti-vax breaks down by age group. The results are sad and disturbing: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/02/02/young-adults-more-likely-to-say-vaccinating-kids-should-be-a-parental-choice/
I can only hope that as my generation watches more and more preventable outbreaks, people wake up and wise up.
Hope they keep working to find a way around needles…
In the Michigan case, she is being jailed not because she refused to vaccinate the child, but because she agreed to do it last year and then reneged on her agreement. That’s different than punishing her for being anti-vax.
@techmom99 right, thanks for clarifying that.
I wish we could expand it to parents who won’t vax.
@cellomom2 I just saw that Washtenaw Co is giving out free/low cost Hep A vaccines (can’t remember which).
@romanigypsyeyes I saw in the news yesterday that there were some cases of Hep A linked to a restaurant in AA also. I got the vaccine at our local CVS.
@cellomom2 Ok yikes. Guess I should go get one to be safe. I’ll shoot an email to my doctor to make sure it’s a vaccine I can get.
Also I should find out where since I eat out in AA frequently (ETA: It’s apparently at a restaurant called Cardamom. Never heard of it)
My roommate works at a juvey in Washtenaw and his work is offering it to all employees.
^Cardamom is an Indian restaurant up near North Campus.
I’m going to encourage my kids to get the Hep A vaccine because it seems like you could easily eat somewhere and be unaware that there was a problem until it’s too late.
As to the question of when people will wake up to the dangers of not vaccinating I’m afraid it will be when a disease or diseases become common enough again that people start to see the consequences of contracting these illnesses.
I hope so cello. But there are even parents out there who have watched their children die from a vaccine preventable illness that are still anti-vax. I can’t imagine how cold you have to be to watch your child die like that and still advocate that other parents do the same. But hey, better dead than “autistic,” right?