Ah, yes, that wonderful whooping cough vaccine:

"New studies published in prominent medical journals have called into question the 85 percent efficacy quoted in the vaccine’s package inserts. For example, one study by scientists at Kaiser Permanente found vaccine effectiveness in Marin County in 2010 to be between 24 and 79 percent for children 2 to 18....Of particular concern was the number of cases in California occurring in fully vaccinated children 7 through 10 years of age. For cases in which immunization history was known, more than 80 percent of the children in that age group diagnosed with pertussis had been fully vaccinated, according to an analysis of state data."

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2012/aug/15/whooping-cough-vaccine-failures-increasing/

Keep up the great work Jake ..had a look at a few of the othersides (dark side web sites) and they look very desperate as what to do with AOA and yourself and others that write on here...you will probably hate me for saying this but your winning..and will win along with AOA

Thanks from the UK

Angus

Despite the efforts of Mnookin and his cronies, the general public understands the vaccinated are still getting pertussis. Fortunately, there are some doctors and public health officials out there honest enough to point out this inconvenient and obvious fact.

Have you noticed the latest meme? They acknowledge the vaccinated can still get pertussis, but are now claiming it is likely to be much less severe if you have been vaccinated. I've seen this repeated countless times in articles over the last month, almost certainly the result of a coordinated change in tack by the vaccine lobby. Supporting documentation? None. Studies cited? None. Anecdotal evidence? None.

Just another in a long string of recent pertussis pronouncements from on high without any basis whatsoever. It suddenly became safe to routinely vaccinate pregnant women despite zero safety studies and statements in the package insert to the contrary. Vaccine "cocooning" of family members became a necessity despite no proof of effectiveness and suspension of the practice in Australia. We are also seeing suggestions that kids get boosters every three years. No explanation of why this fully tested and licensed vaccine doesn't seem to work. No explanation of how repeating something ineffective makes it effective. This from the "evidenced based" community, funny how all their solutions involve moving more product.

There have ALWAYS been outbreaks of Whooping cough, it is no different now than it ever was. It is a bacteria. One can be a carrier and display symptoms more than once...Simplistically, think of it like strep throat...which, BTW there is an outbreak of strep across the country as well.
The point is, the only reason that Whooping cough is being acknowledged as Whooping Cough, is that it is being tested and confirmed in the lab. In the past, pediatricians never tested for whooping cough because they just assumed it could not be..(.there was a vaccine for it and of course ALL vaccines work). Why is it being tested? Well, what an easy way to make more money without having to do anything at all but make more product? First it was 4 DTaP shots, then 5, now they are going to 6. The newest marketing strategy is to give it to teenagers and adults. Just think. All that money coming in to big Pharma (doubled their money using nothing but marketing). Instead of admitting the vaccine does not work against pertussis, they make more money by selling another round!

Nice work Jake, as usual.

I personally have to wonder about this supposed new outbreak of whooping cough. The media has been doing its usual full court press on the issue, which for me is ALWAYS good reason to be skeptical.

Fear mongering articles are now everywhere, and this exerpt from one of them pretty much reflects the prevailing journalistic standard:

" Reported cases of pertussis are at their highest level in 50 years, a top official with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday, adding that outbreaks in several states should encourage all children and adults to get vaccinated..."

Although this all sounds quite ominous, a closer look raises interesting questions:

" Reported cases of pertussis......" - shouldn't this be confirmed cases ???

" at their highest level in 50 years...." - how come EVERY time the CDC reports on something, it's the worst they've seen in several decades ???

" a top official with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday..." - really, a top CDC official who chose to remain nameless ???

" adding that outbreaks in several states should encourage all children and adults to get vaccinated..." - And here it all ends, try to form, with what this and every other main-stream media article is REALLY all about.

I personally don't believe that we're in the midst of a pertussis outbreak. Just like I no longer believe that there are flu seasons every fall.

For the past few years, I've watched the public grow ever more skeptical of the value of flu shots. The swine flu fiasco dealt a tremendous blow to the CDC's credibility, and I've often wondered what strategy they'd come up with, to keep poisoning us with vaccines in spite of the public's growing distrust of their flu shots.

I think I just got my answer.

Tricia :
There is such a reporter.

Dan Olmstead.

But I know what you mean -- Front page news on the Washington Post or headline news on the news hour of a major syndicated something.

Nothern Kentucky and Lexington Kentucky had a pertusis outbreak four or so years back. OF course it blamed the vaccination rates were down.

If only that were true.

My friend had her grandson in one of the preschool classrooms that some of the kids actually came down with whooping cough.

Even though her grandson was fully vaccinated - he and the entire classroom was given antibiotics as a precaution.

I think it is because it is a new strain that the vaccine does not cover.
And they know it!
After all the heads of the NIH and all are trying to crack down on antibiotics being given for anything.

I actually had a doctor (recently) suggest that my son's cough (with nothing else to go on!) might be pertussis! No lab work, less than five minutes with the child, no reason to single out "might be pertussis" except to maybe, oh, I don't know: PUSH THE VAX?

My DH seemed all up in arms, OMG!, what have we done, WE FAILED to get the "booster shot," until I pointed out that: we had no reason to believe our son had pertussis, the cough was going away, and he had been vaccinated for it before, which apparently did no good.

As far as a booster, it would be a moot point in any case, wouldn't it, since IF he had pertussis, then he was now creating his own immunity to the actual disease.

Hubby made one last try: "Well, we could protect others. . ."

No, wrong again, hubby dear, because IF it was pertussis and IF anyone had been exposed to our child already and IF they were close enough to catch it and IF they weren't healthy enough and IF they came down with symptoms and IF they saw a doctor and IF they needed antibiotics--OMG, antibiotics!--THEN, BIG DEAL--they were no worse off than our son had been for a week or so. No more!

And there was no reason to call it pertussis, but I wonder if our doc reported it to the CDC as pertussis! Another case of pertussis. . .diagnosed on absolutely nothing.

Infants? We haven't been around any for years. And if I had a baby, I'd have the common sense to keep my baby away from anyone coughing--for any reason!--DUH! Oh, yeah, I did do that.

Good grief!

Keep rubbing those two brain cells together, people, or else listen to those of us who still can!

p.s. Added bonus? Anyone reasonably healthy, and casually exposed to my son's cough, who didn't get sick is probably busy building antibodies against whatever he had--brilliant, right?--so they themselves will be somewhat immune to future exposures without actually getting sick and without getting the shot.

You're welcome.

Thanks, Jake and also Rob Schneider! It's not easy being an honest soul in a sea of sharks. This is not new with Pertussis ---

Acellular pertussis vaccination enhances B. parapertussis colonization

http://www.cidd.psu.edu/research/synopses/acellular-vaccine-...

....vaccination led to a 40-fold enhancement of B. parapertussis colonization in the lungs of mice.....these data suggest that the vaccine may be contributing to the observed rise in whooping cough incidence over the last decade by promoting B. parapertussis infection.

An acellular whooping cough vaccine actually enhances the colonization of Bordetella parapertussis in mice; pointing towards a rise in B. parapertussis incidence resulting from acellular vaccination, which may have contributed to the observed increase in whooping cough over the last decade.

Despite widespread vaccination, whooping cough incidence is on the rise worldwide, making it the only vaccine-preventable disease associated with increasing deaths in the United States. Although this disease is most often attributed to Bordetella pertussis infection, it is also caused by the closely related pathogen, B. parapertussis. However, B. pertussis has remained the center of attention, whereas B. parapertussis has been greatly overlooked in the development of whooping cough vaccines.

Number of whooping cough cases on the rise in La Crosse Co.

http://www.wkbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=14310640

Excerpt:

LA CROSSE, Wis.- There's a big jump in the number of whooping cough cases in the La Crosse area and health officials are expecting more as it spreads.

There are 12 confirmed cases so far this year. To put that in perspective, in 2009 there were only 2 cases throughout the entire year.

Health officials say the cases of whooping cough this time around are somewhat unusual.

"Unfortunately the cases that we've had have been immunized and so we're not really sure how it's being spread so well and so fast, but we are investigating that right now," says La Crosse Co. Public Health Nurse Traci Lien.

Whooping cough outbreak puzzles Lincoln officials

http://articles.centralkynews.com/2011-01-21/news/27043123_1...

"Whooping cough has reached outbreak status in Lincoln County..There have been 25 cases...23 of them coming from the school...Since all students are required to be vaccinated against the disease before they can attend school and even a single case is considered uncommon, health and school officials are baffled by the outbreak at the school."

More kids' hospital doctors get whooping cough

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/10/18/3041031.htm

excerpt:

The hospital says the doctors have contracted the infection despite keeping their vaccinations up to date.

Dr Brian Wheatley, from the hospital, concedes vaccination is not always effective.

accinated People Getting Whooping Cough In San Diego:

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2010/sep/07/vaccinated-people-getti...

SAN DIEGO — A KPBS investigation has raised questions about how effective the whooping cough vaccine is in preventing people from getting sick. Nearly two out of three people diagnosed with whooping cough in San Diego County this year, were fully immunized.

California is in the midst of the worst whooping cough epidemic in 50 years. Thirty six hundred people in the state have been diagnosed with the disease. Eight babies have died since January.

KPBS examined data from San Diego County’s Health and Human Services Agency. Of the 332 confirmed cases of whooping cough in the county so far this year, 197 of the people who got sick were up to date with their immunizations. That's nearly 2 out of 3 cases.

Mainstream study out of the Netherlands:

Reemergence of Pertussis in the
Highly Vaccinated Population of
the Netherlands: Observations on
Surveillance Data

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2640897/pdf/1090...

"The increase in pertussis incidence was higher among vaccinated than among unvaccinated persons of all ages."

Even those fully vaccinated can still get whooping cough, health official says

http://tribstar.com/news/x1199045212/Even-those-fully-vaccin...
Excerpts:

TERRE HAUTE — Those fully vaccinated for whooping cough can still get the disease, says an epidemiologist with the Indiana State Department of Health.

“We do see cases of kids appropriately vaccinated who still get the disease,” said Angie Cierzniewski, a state vaccine preventable disease epidemiologist.

A Clay County woman knows first-hand that a pertussis vaccination doesn’t eliminate the possibility of someone getting pertussis, also known as whooping cough.

The woman, who did not want her name used, said four children in her family became infected with the disease, and the child that first developed it — her 4-year-old — did have the required doses for her age.

She said two of her children had the required number of doses, a 2-year-old was not vaccinated because of low immunity and other reasons and the oldest, an 8-year-old, was lacking one of the required doses of the vaccination.

The Clay County woman said health authorities had incorrect information that her children contracted the disease because they were not immunized. She wants people to realize they can contract the disease even if they are immunized. “I feel the public may have a false sense of security,” she said.

Charlotte Observer article ADMITS all 16 whooping cough cases WERE vaccinated

http://www.dailypaul.com/74029/charlotte-obsvr-article-admit...

Rare cough on rise in area

Gaston County public health officials fight outbreak of whooping cough; 16 cases reported since August

Excerpt from article:

So far, all the reported pertussis cases in Gaston have been people who have had the vaccination for the disease, Hawkins said.

Seth Mnookin calls for censorship, yet he would be screaming if he were ever to be censored. Offit OPINES through faulty, illogical conjecture that an infant can safely receive 10,000 vaccines at once, later revises that figure upward to 100,000 vaccines on a whim, and that is SCIENCE to Mnookin, and to all the other indoctrinated, well paid, Pharma talking head doctors and lobbyists. Well, sorry, but that is not SCIENCE to anyone with at least two neurons in their head that function. Sorry for the use of capital letters, aka screaming, but this whole censorship thing is a disgrace to anyone who believes in the value of the scientific method, which involves observation. We parents observe a lot more about our children than any doctor at any rushed 15 minute "well baby" examination, and we always will. Those observations should never be discounted or marginalized by an industry, their paid whores, or by any media outlets.

Here is my favorite quote from Buddha, "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if i have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."

So glad you're on our side, Jake! Please never stop.