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JunkfoodScience on Pertussis vaccinations:
"That means, unvaccinated children are associated with a nearly 23-fold (2300%) higher risk of getting the disease compared to vaccinated children...With our increasingly mobile society and people traveling around the world, the likelihood of children in our country being exposed to someone who is infected also increases...But vaccinating isn’t only to protect their own child - it’s to help protect the most vulnerable children in the community, especially infants who are too young to be vaccinated...Nearly all fatal cases of pertussis occur in infants under six months of age, who are too young to have been immunized..Newborns most often get pertussis from being around adults and teens who don’t realize they have the disease. During the first weeks of the illness, symptoms can mimic a common cold or flu, but that’s also when people are the most contagious...There are so many claims out there trying to scare parents about vaccines, but they are not grounded in any good science. “Vaccines are among the most tested drugs we have,” said Dr. Lance Chilton, M.D., professor of pediatrics at the University of New Mexico"
"That means, unvaccinated children are associated with a nearly 23-fold (2300%) higher risk of getting the disease compared to vaccinated children...With our increasingly mobile society and people traveling around the world, the likelihood of children in our country being exposed to someone who is infected also increases...But vaccinating isn’t only to protect their own child - it’s to help protect the most vulnerable children in the community, especially infants who are too young to be vaccinated...Nearly all fatal cases of pertussis occur in infants under six months of age, who are too young to have been immunized..Newborns most often get pertussis from being around adults and teens who don’t realize they have the disease. During the first weeks of the illness, symptoms can mimic a common cold or flu, but that’s also when people are the most contagious...There are so many claims out there trying to scare parents about vaccines, but they are not grounded in any good science. “Vaccines are among the most tested drugs we have,” said Dr. Lance Chilton, M.D., professor of pediatrics at the University of New Mexico"