New California Law Mandates Whooping Cough Booster Shot for Teens

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Nine out of the 10 deaths reported in California were Latino infants. Statewide, the highest rate by race, ethnicity and age was seen in Latino infants 6 months old. Epidemiologists claim the outbreak is being spread by illegal aliens, and estimate 50 percent of the children who have gotten sick were infected by their parents or caregivers.

Recent federal reports found that Mexican border regions have high rates of infectious diseases. A rise in diseases such as whooping cough, tuberculosis, malaria, measles and even leprosy are creating public health concerns and could hit hospitals and health care systems already financially burdened by indigent illegals flooding emergency rooms and urgent care centers.

In the 40 years prior to 2002, there were only 900 total cases of leprosy in the US. In the following three years there have been 9,000 cases and most were illegal aliens. Evidence of TB has surfaced in 38 of 61 California health jurisdictions. 84% having TB were ‘foreign-born' patients, mainly from Mexico who'd been in the U.S. less than five years. Chagas Disease is basically unknown outside of the illegal alien community. Most doctors won't recognize it and the blood supply just started being screened for it. The rate of HIV infection among Latino women in California is about twice the rate of white women. At one free California health clinic, all of the women have HIV or AIDS. Most are Mexican or Central American "immigrants."


While legal immigrants must undergo health screening prior to entering the U.S., illegal immigrants far more likely to be carrying contagious diseases are crawling under that safeguard and going undetected until they infect extraordinary numbers of American residents. Instead of trying to grant amnesty to illegal aliens, pushing for them to get Social Security checks, etc., our government should be protecting American citizens from the diseases being brought in by illegal aliens instead of turning a blind eye. The best way to protect Americans is not by requiring our children to have more shots but to vigorously deport the illegals who are here.

The same line that is used over and over again is that the children not immunized will put others at risk! This is nonsense for the simple reason that if the other children are immunized they should be safe. THINK PEOPLE.
Educate before you vaccinate because you cannot un-vaccinate

Whooping cough is contagious. This means it spreads easily from one person to another.
California reports 8,000 cases. It would be easy to track the origin of the carrier. Where did that person come into contact with it?
Have they called the CDC in Atalanta for the money to do this, as Calif is more than broke?
Good science, good medicine dictates that this be done according to our nation's experts: Focus Adolescent Services

drroberts, are you an idiot or what? 8000 cases of whooping cough in CA. So fricking what???? 8000 is what percentage of population, .1% if even that? And I'll bet most of these people are worthless illegals, since they aren't the cleanest people (by a far amount) in this country. Spend our activities on things that will do the most good for the most people, not waste money on something that if lucky will stop 2000 of those 8000 cases. drroberts, if you are really a doctor, you need your certificates revoked.

AH, did you not get vacinated before you started first grade? It's the law, you can't start school unless you have your shots. They are only trying to keep the kids healthy. You have to get inoculations to go into other countries. This is nothing new, I don't remember anyone dying from the shots.

I know people who have died from vaccines, Dave...

If you live in California and you don't want your child to be vaccinated, you can sign the exemption form and they must honor it. Period. They may bully you, but they have to honor it. What they will tell you is that if an outbreak of the disease your child did not get vaccinated against happens at school, your child will be excluded form school until the outbreak is over. If you don't want your child vaccinated, you don't have to give into it. Sign the form.

Linda,

Spill it for the common folks....Look people. This b.s. of gov't controlling what is injected into our children is for the birds. For God's sake...WHEN ARE AMERICANS GOING TO WAKE UP!!! I vote force it on the illegals and welfare participants first, btw that my and many others working dollars pay for, wait a few years, then tell me that I HAVE NO CHOICE in this matter.............TAKE A STAND!!!!

You know Holly, I immediately thought the same exact thing. You meam to tell me that the "authorities" cannot tell us that the reason for this "outbreak" is due to the staggering number of illegals that are rushing over the border in record numbers? How about mandating that every illegal that pops out a baby in the United States gets vaccinations for EVERYTHING--polio, pertussis, chicken pox, HPV, measles, mumps, Hepatitis B, etc.---and see how the numbers decline for these illnesses. The fact the the government is "mandating" medical care for Americna citizens is appalling, especially when it comes to vaccinations that are already controversial to begin with. Instead of politicians worrying about being "politically correct" and losing votes from these people in the next election, they should be concerned with the CITIZENS of America, not with the people who have defected from their own country but refuse to fly an Americna flag outside their homes, instead hanging out a Mexican flag for all to see. Illegal immigration is a HUGE problem, yet nobody wants to bring it up, or bring it to the forefront of the issues. In all the talks and addresses about the federal and state deficits, NOTHING gets mentioned about how much $$$ these illegals are sucking out of the welfare system and bleeding our nation dry!! The things that get cut are social security, Medicare----benefits that CITIZENS of America worked for all their lives, and it is being STOLEN by these illegals!! How come we never hear about cuts being made to Medicaid, WIC or other social programs that support those illegals? How come we haven't heard about any changes in the citizenship rules, stopping "automatic citizenship" for every child born in America to 2 parents that are illegal immigrants, so cease the immediate and automatic "priviliges" that come with American citizenship? Citizens of the United States are being scrrewed by their own government and country, because our politicians would rather pansy-ass to the minorities and illegal immigrants to get election votes. It is ridiculous, and nothing is going to change until we get people into office that give a damn about the citizens of this country instead of giving a damn about their "positions". The truth needs to be put out there and addressed by our government. I remember when I was laying on a beach in Boca Raton, Florida and all of a sudden about 25 INS agents walked onto the beach to apprehend a raft full of Cubans attempting to get the hell out of Cuba---and they did. They got each one off the raft, handuffed every one and took them in (and they got deported back to Cuba, I am sure). What is the difference with these people? There is absolutely nothing wrong with what Arizona is doing---we have to do something to get rid of these illegal immigrants who have committed a crime just by being here illegally. Do you think they a rat's ass about bringing over illness and disease and infecting our citizens with it? No, they don't. The only thing they care about is getting to the Social Services office to grab some free benefits for their anchor babies.

Your daughter most likely would have changed anyway plus, she will get all the horrible diseases around and have all the bad effects of them if not die. Meanwhile you'll pass diseases to all those around you. Just because you can't put one plus one together and not get anything but a Government conspiracy and can completely ignore good, strong sciencific facts doesn't mean you have the right to expose our children to all those sicknesses. Or were you going to keep her locked in the house for her whole life? You with her? Did YOU get shots? Did YOU change?

In reply to momof4too:
You make an extraordinary number of assumptions and accusations in a short space. Let's go through a few of them, shall we?

- You claim the baby would most likely have changed anyway. Why are you so sure? Wouldn't the parents and the doctor who recommended abstaining from future shots be the best judge of that?

-"She will get all the horrible diseases around and have all the bad effects of them if not die." Excuse me, but I had exemptions as a child and I am abnormally healthy. Your assumption is fallacious (unless you are psychic, in which case you may want to apply for a TV show).

-"Just because you can't put one plus one together and not get anything but a Government conspiracy[...]". Where did you get the conspiracy accusation? She explained reasonable cause & effect logic, and said that the neurological effects are rare. Funny how your mind jumped to conspiracies, though.

-"[You don't] have the right to expose our children to all those sicknesses." If your children are vaccinated, why do you care?

- "Did YOU get shots? Did YOU change?" What on earth makes you think that infants and adults react the same way to same environmental triggers? And even if you are referring to the mother's own infancy, didn't she just finish saying that the effects are rare?

Have a good day.

Agreed, drmom2. Whooping Cough/Pertussis is a horrible, dangerous childhood disease but when both of my children received their DTP shots at 2 months, each went pale, limp, cold, and nonresponsive, one for one hour but the other for over 12 hours. We were warned by the pediatrician who observed one of the reactions himself never to try even the acellular vaccine for either because the next event could kill them. Both had lingering effects.

Wow, momof4, you're really showing your ignorance here. No, that baby wouldn't have "changed anyway" for no reason. The baby clearly had a reaction to the vaccine. And if you think the vaccines work so well, why are you concerned about the vaccinated kids getting exposed to and contracting the illnesses? Shouldn't they be covered?? That argument has never made any kind of common sense ...

Anyone who does not believe immunizations can be detrimental to our children are not well educated on the subject. They must be listening to the government entities that cover up the truth. I am the mother of a child who was perfectly normal at birth. With the 1st set he had a little temp but everything seemed to be ok, by the time he his 12 month shots I noticed little things but the doctor assured me that it was normal- my son was just a little delayed and would catch up (it was common at 18 months). He received his last immunizations at 24 months. He developed a fever and completely shut down emotionally and mentally. He laughed no more. He did not talk. He did not hug or give kisses any more. It has taken us a year to get him to smile or laugh; he now has a vocabulary of 5 words of which only we understand (they are more sounds than words). The government does not say that immunizations do not cause autism or like problems; IT says there is no evidence. Please send them to my home---I have definitive proof. Children may not develop problems from one set of immunizations but they may build up to a level that causes problems over time with each set of immunizations they receive.