[identity profile] feyandstrange.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
Of course, your Fox News link utterly fails to mention that the Department of Health says the vaccine fraud scare movement is partly to blame, since all children should have been vaccinated.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ColdandFlu/whooping-cough-epidemic-california-lax-vaccination-blame/story?id=11000305

[identity profile] lilacsigil.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 08:27 am (UTC)(link)
It's going around where I live, too. Fortunately we have a very high vaccination rate so very few people in this area have a serious case - but people in areas of New South Wales with low vaccination rates have seen several babies die.

[identity profile] fimbrethil.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 09:44 am (UTC)(link)
We had one case at our school and at east one case of scarlet fever as well. Scary stuff.

[identity profile] silmaril.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
But vaccines cause autism!!eleventy!1!

*sigh* Where is my Clue Bat?

[identity profile] redstapler.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Clearly it's enough of a problem that I just saw this commercial. (http://www.soundsofpertussis.com/)

YIKES.