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| Whooping cough a disease of the wealthy | |
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| George K | Nov 13 2010, 05:04 AM Post #1 |
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Finally
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California's Whooping Cough Epidemic Centered in Rich, White Counties Pertussis is a disease of the wealthy, according to the data from the California Department of Public Health. Their latest report, with data on the whooping cough epidemic in California through Nov. 9, 2010, contains the case counts and case rates by county. When those data are combined with data from theCensus Bureau on the Latino population of California counties and the Department of Agriculture on median county income, a picture begins to emerge about the real demographics of this illness outbreak. Twenty California counties have reported 100 or more cases of pertussis in 2010. Those counties contain 85 percent of the state's population, and 88 percent of the state's Latino population. They have reported, in total, 5,900 cases of whooping cough out of the state total of 6,631 cases. Latinos have been the subject of intense speculation because the California Department of Public Health is reporting that the epidemic appears to be affecting Hispanic infants more than other races. CDPH only has hospitalization information on 40 percent of the cases and draws their conclusions on the epidemic's effects from those limited data. Internet comments have accused illegal immigrants of being the source of the epidemic. Even officials at the Centers for Disease Control have suggested that Hispanic families have unique living conditions that are contributing to the epidemic. Of the 20 California counties reporting over 100 cases of pertussis, eight have a higher percentage of Latino residents than the state's rate of 32 percent. These counties have about 44 percent of the state's residents, and are 58 percent Latino. These counties have reported 2,686 cases, 41 percent of the state's total. The average median income for these counties, as of 2008, was 25 percent lower than the statewide median income. The remaining 12 California counties have Latino populations lower than the state average. They hold 41 percent of the state's population but only have 29 percent Latino population. They have reported 3,214 cases of whooping cough, 49 percent of the state's total. These same 12 counties have an average median income that is 14 percent higher than the state's. The CDPH weekly report has been showing for several weeks that whites have the highest rate per 100,000 for whooping cough infection in all age groups over 6 months. Hispanics have the highest rate in infants. Infants do not receive their first vaccination for pertussis until age 2 months. About 600 cases have been reported in infants too young to have been immunized. The second immunization at four months and the third at six months both demonstrate a drop in cases numbers after they have been received. The California whooping cough epidemic seems to be heaviest in areas that have fewer Latinos than the statewide average, and that have a median income well above the statewide average. It appears that income and race do play a role in the California epidemic, with well-to-do white people being the center of the outbreak. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Mikhailoh | Nov 13 2010, 05:15 AM Post #2 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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No doubt the cries for quarantining the rich and seizing their assets will follow. Never waste a |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Axtremus | Nov 13 2010, 05:17 AM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Fvcking rich people! |
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| Mikhailoh | Nov 13 2010, 05:21 AM Post #4 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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FIFY. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Axtremus | Nov 13 2010, 05:24 AM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Coughing rich people! |
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| Mikhailoh | Nov 13 2010, 05:25 AM Post #6 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Whooping rich people! |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Jolly | Nov 13 2010, 07:48 AM Post #7 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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No, fvcking idiots. This is some more of my "vaccinations are detrimental" horse-hockey that has been making the rounds in the fashionable magazines for the last decade or so. Apparently, it seems that Bordetella can't read... |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| jon-nyc | Nov 13 2010, 08:00 AM Post #8 |
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Cheers
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That was my thought as well. There are a lot of those types around here who are educated enough to know better. |
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| George K | Nov 13 2010, 08:02 AM Post #9 |
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Finally
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| sue | Nov 13 2010, 09:09 AM Post #10 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Absolutely. We've seen the same thing here. |
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| Jolly | Nov 13 2010, 09:38 AM Post #11 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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I've got this stuff in my own family. Bless her heart, my niece is a graduate (3.9 GPA) of one of Florida's better institutions of higher learning. Married almost two years ago, she and her husband have tried to create a little homestead of almost Thoreau-like simplicity. Which is fine, if you labor under the misconception that $500/month feed bills are ok for animals you don't eat. But the flip side of the equation has raised its ugly head after she became pregnant. She was one of those idiots who wanted to do everything "naturally", until everything went to Hell in a handbasket and only the presence of modern medicine meant she and her child lived through the birth. She still adheres to her idiocy. Wife talked to her on the phone last week and the baby is running a pretty good fever...my wife suggested alternating doses of ibuprofen and acetaminophen and was told the baby didn't need that, since fever was the body's way of ridding itself of disease. Grrrrrrrrr..... |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| sue | Nov 13 2010, 10:35 AM Post #12 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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That's scary. Babies with fevers should not be messed with. |
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| 1hp | Nov 13 2010, 06:04 PM Post #13 |
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Fulla-Carp
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My wife had whooping cough a few months back. It's not a case of my "vaccinations are detrimental" horse-hockey as has been suggested, it's a case of most adults don't know that they need a booster. My wife was immunised as a kid - doctor told her that once she is over the whooping cough she needs to get a booster, as do most adults. |
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| Red Rice | Nov 13 2010, 06:41 PM Post #14 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I think that the pertussis vaccine for adults was not available until 2005 in any case. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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