Very sad: SAN DIEGO, Calif. — San Diego County health officials say a month-old baby boy has died of whooping cough. The death reported Thursday marks at least the seventh infant to die of whooping cough this year in California. The San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency says the boy died Tuesday at Rady Children's Hospital, the county's first whooping cough death in nine years. Whooping cough has become an epidemic in California, which has recorded about 1,500 cases through July 13. That's a fivefold increase over the same period last year. Dean Sidelinger, county deputy public health officer, urges parents and caretakers to get vaccinations to avoid more deaths because the illness is highly contagious. A typical case appears similar to a common cold for up to two weeks, followed by coughing fits that sometimes end with a whooping sound.
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One of the costs of an open border that Washington seems willing to accept in their attempt to curry favor with Hispanic voters.
ReplyDeleteIllegal immigration can have a number of impacts that we don't relate directly to the source, disease is one of them.
ReplyDeleteIf we vaccinate all our kids or so many that the disease dies out in time in the U.S., then when a fresh batch of carriers show up, the disease will come back.
I think there are a number of outbreaks of the old classics, long dead here, like smallpox, measles and some others.
Hey, as long as the lettuce remains cheap.
Where do you find this cheap lettuce? I haven't seen any for many years.
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