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anti-vaxxers cause whooping cough outbreak in NSW
Mar 12^th, 2016 at 9:19am

Whooping cough outbreak has Northern Rivers on high alert

http://www.northernstar.com.au/news/whooping-cough-up-1660-on-northern-rivers/2959507/?utm_campaign=Mailchimp+Morning+News&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Northern+Star

PARENTS and pregnant women are being warned to be vaccinated against whooping cough after the number of cases on the Northern Rivers has jumped by a massive 1660%.

North Coast Assistant Public Heath Director, Greg Bell said there had been 83 confirmed cases of the illness on the Northern Rivers this year, compared with just five at the same time in 2015.

Mr Bell said the Northern Rivers was one of the worst areas in NSW for whopping cough cases at the moment.

"We have got a large number of cases of whooping cough in our area and it's quite serious," he said.

"We are in the middle of a spike and we have been telling people that.

"The whole state is on alert for cases of whooping cough."

The last major outbreak of whooping cough on the Northern Rivers was in 2008 and 2009.

"After that outbreak we were lower than the state average for whooping cough for the past few years," Mr Bell said.

Pockets of unvaccinated people in the region was the cause for the rise and fall in whooping cough cases, Mr Bell said, because we do not have herd immunity to the illness on the Northern Rivers.

"Whooping cough is always in the community, even when you have got high immunisation rates you still get little waves of the illness," he said.

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miketrees Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6492 Gender:	Re: anti-vaxxers cause whooping cough outbreak in NSW Reply #1 - Mar 12^th, 2016 at 9:33am The problem is we don't have enough diseases that retrospectively sterilize the Mongos in our community.
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cods Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 88048	Re: anti-vaxxers cause whooping cough outbreak in NSW Reply #2 - Mar 12^th, 2016 at 9:57am freediver wrote on Mar 12^th, 2016 at 9:19am: Whooping cough is always in the community, even when you have got high immunisation rates you still get little waves of the illness," he said. so immunisation doesnt actually prevent it..
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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 52503 At my desk.	Re: anti-vaxxers cause whooping cough outbreak in NSW Reply #3 - Mar 12^th, 2016 at 10:00am It does not prevent the disease in non-immunised people cods.
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Reply #4 - Mar 12^th, 2016 at 10:33am

freediver wrote on Mar 12^th, 2016 at 10:00am:

It does not prevent the disease in non-immunised people cods.

so is it just those not immunised ??..

some say you can still get the disease just not so bad...

I am amazed at the ignorance out there about immunisation....are those that refuse it exposing us all/ more so their own children to smallpox and polio as well as whooping cough.??

considering its all FREE in this country.... Roll Eyes

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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: anti-vaxxers cause whooping cough outbreak in NSW Reply #5 - Mar 12^th, 2016 at 11:36am Of all the kooks in all this kooky world these anti VAX people must be the kookiest. To oppose the greatest advance in disease prevention is mind boggling
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Reply #6 - Mar 12^th, 2016 at 11:53am

I think you'll find the trend did not emerge until there was a generation that grew up without people dying around them from communicable diseases. It's a lot easier to hold such strange views when death can be abstracted. Their idiocy is a reflection of the success of immunisation. People don't fear this death any more, because they don't see it.

There was a study done measuring people's response to nasty smells from a sewer or rubbish dump. Poor people from slums reacted with a lot more fear than rich, healthy people, because they knew from experience what it means.

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Reply #7 - Mar 12^th, 2016 at 11:57am

Even if you had a whooping cough shot as a child, you need a booster as an adult.

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Which adults need whooping cough vaccine?

All adults age 19 to 64 years need a one-time whooping cough booster vaccine.
Adults age 65 years and older need a one-time whooping cough booster if they will have close contact with infants younger than 12 months.
If not already vaccinated, pregnant women should receive the booster vaccine late in the second trimester or during the third trimester, during each pregnancy.
The whooping cough booster is a combination vaccine with tetanus and diphtheria. The vaccine is called Tdap.
Once an adult gets the Tdap vaccine, he or she should get the Td (tetanus and diphtheria) booster every 10 years from then on.

http://www.adultvaccination.org/vpd/pertussis

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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: anti-vaxxers cause whooping cough outbreak in NSW Reply #8 - Mar 12^th, 2016 at 12:02pm I think they added the booster to the fluvax a couple of years ago.
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Neferti Gold Member Offline Posts: 7965 Canberra Gender:	Re: anti-vaxxers cause whooping cough outbreak in NSW Reply #9 - Mar 12^th, 2016 at 12:08pm bogarde73 wrote on Mar 12^th, 2016 at 12:02pm: I think they added the booster to the fluvax a couple of years ago. See above. The booster is a combination of tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (whooping cough). The flu shot is an annual thing, you don't need the pertussis booster annually.
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Reply #10 - Mar 12^th, 2016 at 12:14pm

freediver wrote on Mar 12^th, 2016 at 11:53am:

I think you'll find the trend did not emerge until there was a generation that grew up without people dying around them from communicable diseases. It's a lot easier to hold such strange views when death can be abstracted. Their idiocy is a reflection of the success of immunisation. People don't fear this death any more, because they don't see it.

There was a study done measuring people's response to nasty smells from a sewer or rubbish dump. Poor people from slums reacted with a lot more fear than rich, healthy people, because they knew from experience what it means.

I would like to ask one or two of them.. how they feel about Ebola for instance.. would they take their chances?????.......what about ZIKA... if the chances of them getting ZIKA whilst pregnant was a strong possibility would they reject any vaccine??..

or would they in effect demand to have it??....

if a vaccine comes out tomorrow to prevent cancer... what would they do???.....

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Reply #11 - Mar 12^th, 2016 at 1:11pm

Neferti wrote on Mar 12^th, 2016 at 12:08pm:

bogarde73 wrote on Mar 12^th, 2016 at 12:02pm:

I think they added the booster to the fluvax a couple of years ago.

See above. The booster is a combination of tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (whooping cough). The flu shot is an annual thing, you don't need the pertussis booster annually.

You don't need tetanus every year either. I think it used to be 10 years?
Come to think of it I better check mine, being as I work with horse**** and chicken**** and rusty wire.

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Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 89867 Proud Old White Australian Man Gender:	Re: anti-vaxxers cause whooping cough outbreak in NSW Reply #12 - Mar 12^th, 2016 at 1:36pm How can that be if all the other kids are vaccinated?
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Re: anti-vaxxers cause whooping cough outbreak in NSW
Reply #13 - Mar 12^th, 2016 at 1:37pm

bogarde73 wrote on Mar 12^th, 2016 at 1:11pm:

Neferti wrote on Mar 12^th, 2016 at 12:08pm:

bogarde73 wrote on Mar 12^th, 2016 at 12:02pm:

I think they added the booster to the fluvax a couple of years ago.

See above. The booster is a combination of tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (whooping cough). The flu shot is an annual thing, you don't need the pertussis booster annually.

You don't need tetanus every year either. I think it used to be 10 years?
Come to think of it I better check mine, being as I work with horse**** and chicken**** and rusty wire.

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Re: anti-vaxxers cause whooping cough outbreak in NSW
Reply #14 - Mar 12^th, 2016 at 2:02pm

Vaccination has been linked to autism and other effects that seriously reversed children's development while drug companies acted against the researchers who exposed the links. Drug companies are more interested in sustaining profits than correcting vaccines that are shown to cause very harmful side effects.

Society abandons the victims of vaccines which cause harm.

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