States ending free parent whooping cough vaccination
Is this a legit story? Does anybody know about this?
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thats just crazy!!!
I'm actually suspecting perhaps a new schedule or vaccine attack. I think they are probably rather heavy into the research at this stage, into why they haven't managed to contain this one.
I think we'll be hearing more soon.
I think we'll be hearing more soon.
QUOTE (*howls* @ 09/05/2012, 12:26 AM) 
I'm actually suspecting perhaps a new schedule or vaccine attack. I think they are probably rather heavy into the research at this stage, into why they haven't managed to contain this one.
I think we'll be hearing more soon.
I think we'll be hearing more soon.
If only.
The current vaccine works, the problem is that not enough people have had it, and certainly not enough kids.
A certain proportion of the population needs to be immunized so that there are not enough people to pass it around in the community; our vaccination rates have fallen below this level for whooping cough.
Vaccinating a few parents seems to not help, hence the program is bein abandoned.
For my part, I won't be taking DS2 into crowded public places, kids birthday parties or other potentially 'contagious' situations until he's two months old and had his first jabs. Maybe I'm overly paranoid.... But I see no reason to risk it.
I dont know if the article is legit but not all states run free programs anyway - SA did briefly back in 2010 - was only for parents and grandparents of under 6 month olds on healthcare cards. other parents/grandparents still had to pay for it.
No longer free for any adults in SA now - costs around $35 on script.
Has never been a national program - each state just does/did their own thing.
I dont think there is any question that adult coverage of whooping cough protects babies who come into contact with those adults - the stopping of the programs would of been purely an economic decision, not a question of the vaccine being ineffective.
Although the whooping cough vaccine is not perfect, it is the best defence we have.
No longer free for any adults in SA now - costs around $35 on script.
Has never been a national program - each state just does/did their own thing.
I dont think there is any question that adult coverage of whooping cough protects babies who come into contact with those adults - the stopping of the programs would of been purely an economic decision, not a question of the vaccine being ineffective.
Although the whooping cough vaccine is not perfect, it is the best defence we have.
I think they are also concerned because of the different strain and that this vaccine isn't containing that version of the virus.
Professor McIntyre, Director of the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance at Sydney Uni discusses why,
https://theconversation.edu.au/does-whoopin...;utm_term=looks
https://theconversation.edu.au/does-whoopin...;utm_term=looks
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