Whooping cough

[bandit957]

I had to go to the emergency room last night, and I found out I have whooping cough.

Anyone else here ever have this from living in a third world country?

[Roadgeekteen]

I don't get it. What does third world country have to do with this? Did you live in a third world country.

[kalvado]

I had to go to the emergency room last night, and I found out I have whooping cough.

Anyone else here ever have this from living in a third world country?

A small third world country called California had a bit of an outbreak in 2010-2014 if I remember corectly  I believe they more or less contained it for now. Not a big one, low tens thousands cases.
WA, VT, WI also had some.
Ignoring immunizations allows that stuff spread...

[Brandon]

Whooping cough, otherwise known as Pertussis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertussis

And the vaccine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertussis_vaccine

Importantly, outbreaks do occur in the developed world.

[bandit957]

I don't get it. What does third world country have to do with this? Did you live in a third world country.

I do now.

[kalvado]

I don't get it. What does third world country have to do with this? Did you live in a third world country.

I do now.

Incubation is 2-3 weeks, up to 42 days.
In general if you're diagnosed correctly, chances are you're going to be OK

[Brandon]

I don't get it. What does third world country have to do with this? Did you live in a third world country.

I do now.

Well, it is Kentucky after all...
/sarc

[kphoger]

Our church's youth pastor contracted whooping cough after returning from one of our mission trips to northern Mexico a few years ago, right around the time there was the aforementioned outbreak in the western US.  While it's likely he contracted the bacteria in Mexico, it's also quite possible he contracted it in the US before leaving or on the way down.

[Roadgeekteen]

I had to go to the emergency room last night, and I found out I have whooping cough.

Anyone else here ever have this from living in a third world country?

A small third world country called California had a bit of an outbreak in 2010-2014 if I remember corectly  I believe they more or less contained it for now. Not a big one, low tens thousands cases.
WA, VT, WI also had some.
Ignoring immunizations allows that stuff spread...

But they cause autism! I need my freedom! I even ignore facts! 

[adventurernumber1]

I had to go to the emergency room last night, and I found out I have whooping cough.

Anyone else here ever have this from living in a third world country?

A small third world country called California had a bit of an outbreak in 2010-2014 if I remember corectly  I believe they more or less contained it for now. Not a big one, low tens thousands cases.
WA, VT, WI also had some.
Ignoring immunizations allows that stuff spread...

But they cause autism! I need my freedom! I even ignore facts! 

I'm really not trying to get political here, but IIRC, it is a scientific fact that vaccines do not cause autism, and I am saying that as an autistic person... and I would really not recommend ignoring vaccines for that reason, because it could potentially be quite dangerous in the end..


But regarding the actual topic of the thread, I hope you recover easily and quickly, Tim. Best wishes.

[kkt]

You don't have to be a 3rd world country to have outbreaks of whooping cough.  There was an outbreak in Seattle schools a couple of years ago.  They used to think the vaccine provided lifelong immunity, they found out the hard way that you need a booster shot.  Plus some kids never got even one shot.

[hbelkins]

I've heard of several cases in Kentucky over the past year.

[inkyatari]

I had to go to the emergency room last night, and I found out I have whooping cough.

Does it sometimes feel like a tickle in the back of your throat?  If so, I am thinking I may have whooping cough.

[index]

My school recently gave out a letter because someone, probably unvaccinated, got whooping cough and went to school with it. They would be giving letters to people who had come in contact with that person, and nobody I know got those letters.

[SectorZ]

Whooping cough vaccinations do not last a lifetime. In fact, they usually crap out by later teen years. When my wife was in high school, her school had an outbreak of it. All but one of the people with it had been vaccinated earlier in life for it. I don't know if the one who hadn't was the vector for it.

[bandit957]

I had to go to the emergency room last night, and I found out I have whooping cough.

Does it sometimes feel like a tickle in the back of your throat?  If so, I am thinking I may have whooping cough.

Maybe a little. It features horrible coughing fits that leave one gasping for air.

[US 89]

Whooping cough vaccinations do not last a lifetime. In fact, they usually crap out by later teen years.

Which is why you're supposed to get a booster every ten years, which you also get with a tetanus shot (it's called TDAP). In Utah, I believe students entering the seventh grade are required to get a TDAP vaccine before school starts.

I had to go to the emergency room last night, and I found out I have whooping cough.

Anyone else here ever have this from living in a third world country?

A small third world country called California had a bit of an outbreak in 2010-2014 if I remember corectly  I believe they more or less contained it for now. Not a big one, low tens thousands cases.
WA, VT, WI also had some.
Ignoring immunizations allows that stuff spread...

But they cause autism! I need my freedom! I even ignore facts! 

I'm really not trying to get political here, but IIRC, it is a scientific fact that vaccines do not cause autism, and I am saying that as an autistic person... and I would really not recommend ignoring vaccines for that reason, because it could potentially be quite dangerous in the end..

It was later discovered that guy who did the initial study that found a link to autism broke many ethical codes and manipulated evidence, and he is now banned from practicing medicine in the UK. In fact, 11 of the original co-authors of that study withdrew their names from the paper. There is absolutely no evidence that vaccines are related to autism.

My dad is a pediatrician, so I always hear him ranting about how some of his patients' parents don't believe in vaccines, and then they wonder why their children get sick with vaccine-preventable diseases.

[Roadgeekteen]

Whooping cough vaccinations do not last a lifetime. In fact, they usually crap out by later teen years.

Which is why you're supposed to get a booster every ten years, which you also get with a tetanus shot (it's called TDAP). In Utah, I believe students entering the seventh grade are required to get a TDAP vaccine before school starts.

I had to go to the emergency room last night, and I found out I have whooping cough.

Anyone else here ever have this from living in a third world country?

A small third world country called California had a bit of an outbreak in 2010-2014 if I remember corectly  I believe they more or less contained it for now. Not a big one, low tens thousands cases.
WA, VT, WI also had some.
Ignoring immunizations allows that stuff spread...

But they cause autism! I need my freedom! I even ignore facts! 

I'm really not trying to get political here, but IIRC, it is a scientific fact that vaccines do not cause autism, and I am saying that as an autistic person... and I would really not recommend ignoring vaccines for that reason, because it could potentially be quite dangerous in the end..

It was later discovered that guy who did the initial study that found a link to autism broke many ethical codes and manipulated evidence, and he is now banned from practicing medicine in the UK. In fact, 11 of the original co-authors of that study withdrew their names from the paper. There is absolutely no evidence that vaccines are related to autism.

My dad is a pediatrician, so I always hear him ranting about how some of his patients' parents don't believe in vaccines, and then they wonder why their children get sick with vaccine-preventable diseases.

Vaccines really need to be mandatory world wide.

[kalvado]

It was later discovered that guy who did the initial study that found a link to autism broke many ethical codes and manipulated evidence, and he is now banned from practicing medicine in the UK. In fact, 11 of the original co-authors of that study withdrew their names from the paper. There is absolutely no evidence that vaccines are related to autism.

My dad is a pediatrician, so I always hear him ranting about how some of his patients' parents don't believe in vaccines, and then they wonder why their children get sick with vaccine-preventable diseases.

Not that such behavior would be unacceptable if those ideas went mainstream.

[hbelkins]

I had to go to the emergency room last night, and I found out I have whooping cough.

Does it sometimes feel like a tickle in the back of your throat?  If so, I am thinking I may have whooping cough.

That's usually my first symptom that I'm getting a common cold.

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

I had to go to the emergency room last night, and I found out I have whooping cough.

Anyone else here ever have this from living in a third world country?

I had whooping cough when I was 6. I think Ohio was considered 2nd world country at the time.

[US 89]

I had to go to the emergency room last night, and I found out I have whooping cough.

Anyone else here ever have this from living in a third world country?

I had whooping cough when I was 6. I think Ohio was considered 2nd world country at the time.

So, communist?

[formulanone]

Whooping cough vaccinations do not last a lifetime. In fact, they usually crap out by later teen years. When my wife was in high school, her school had an outbreak of it. All but one of the people with it had been vaccinated earlier in life for it. I don't know if the one who hadn't was the vector for it.

My wife and I were advised to get boosters, at the ripe old age of 40-41. This also made the kids feel a little better about taking it.

Whether it's anti-vaxxers or it just losing efficacy (like Smallpox vaccines) isn't really my level of expertise. My friend's son got a few years ago it at age 8, even after his shots and vaccines, so it's not perfect.

[US 81]

The older DPT vaccine had some occasional side effects (among which were high fever with occasional febrile seizure) but initially appeared to confer a long immunity. I was diagnosed with it in my early 20's, and there was a lot of disbelief among the clinicians. We've since come to understand that a number of teens and adults get pertussis; it's not clear if the immunity from the better-tolerated acellular vaccine (the DTaP) lasts a shorter time or if we're better at detecting pertussis in older people because now we sometimes are looking for it.

It tends to be a severe, life-threatening illness, only among infants and young children - those who cannot (yet) be fully vaccinated are at greatest risk from this illness. If everyone who can get immunized does get immunized, then herd immunity will actually protect the very young as well as immunocompromised individuals of all ages.

[inkyatari]

Doctor says it's the result of post nasal drip.  She has me on prednisone.