Via
CBS News:
Researchers have linked parents not vaccinating their children for whopping cough to outbreaks of the disease that occurred in 2010 in California.
They hope their study adds more evidence to convince parents to get their kids vaccinated to not only save their life against this dangerous infection, but to protect children who are most at risk because they're too young to get the shot.
"We live in a free society, but infectious diseases are different from other phenomenon. Someone else's behavior can affect my child or loved one, or me," study author Dr. Saad Omer, an associate professor of global health, epidemiology and pediatrics at Emory University's Vaccine Center in Atlanta, said to HealthDay.
There were over 9,000 reported cases of whooping cough in the state in 2010, the highest number recorded since 1947. The ten deaths that year were all young infants; pertussis ("whooping cough") is highly contagious, but children
cannot be vaccinated against the disease until an age of two months, and do not receive sufficient immunity until the third dose, four months later.
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2006—More On GOP House Leadership Scandal:
[T]he NY Times, in cataloguing a really bad week for the GOP, notes:
The highly publicized case of Mr. Foley, who served in the House leadership as a deputy whip, threatened to build into an institutional scandal as House leaders acknowledged that they had known about the messages for nearly a year, but had relied on [Rep.Mark] Foley's word that nothing inappropriate had occurred. |
It isn't threat[en]ing to build in to an institutional scandal, it's already a scandal. The GOP House leadership knew about a pedophile for a year, including Hastert (soon to be the ex-Leader, and a dead man walking), and did nothing. This is not defensible, no matter how much spin the networks are willing to do for the GOP (see the GOP reaction to the Woodward book, which while ineffective, is extensive). Every parent in the country is going to react to this, at the least, as will the values voters (if they mean what they say about values—to be determined).
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Tweet of the Day:
Hey Republican House staffers writing press releases and talking points about taking away your own health care benefits, is that weird?
— @jonlovett
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today's Kagro in the Morning show, we round up the shutdown stories, and explain process & procedure.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch takes MO's Gop to task for callous politics & reckless hostage taking. The
NYT's "Children and Guns: The Hidden Toll." How much impact has #GunFAIL had?
Armando on mandatory gun insurance. "Lazy Beltway media infuriatingly blows debt limit 'coverage.'" Might Obama label debt ceiling demands unconstitutional?
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