whooping-cough

By the mid-1980s, plaintiffs' lawyers were seeking billions in damages, and the price of the whooping-cough vaccine shot up 10,000 percent.

The Whooping Cough's Unnecessary Return Paul Howard 2011

This public-health calamity, moreover, comes at a time when the Supreme Court is considering a lawsuit against whooping-cough vaccine manufacturer Wyeth; if successful, the suit would make epidemics much more likely and undermine public confide nce in vaccines even further.

The Whooping Cough's Unnecessary Return Paul Howard 2011

It isn't surprising, then, that Marin County accounts for 15 percent of all California whooping-cough cases, despite having just 0.67 percent of the state's population.

The Whooping Cough's Unnecessary Return Paul Howard 2011

Today's anti-vaccine hysteria can be traced in part to a 1974 British study that appeared to link the whooping-cough vaccine to rare brain injuries.

The Whooping Cough's Unnecessary Return Paul Howard 2011

Why, then, is that sickness making a scary comeback in California, which is currently weathering its largest whooping-cough epidemic since 1947, with over 7,800 cases and 10 deaths in 2010?

The Whooping Cough's Unnecessary Return Paul Howard 2011

Before the advent of the whooping-cough vaccine, the debilitating disease struck hundreds of thousands of children annually and killed thousands of them.

The Whooping Cough's Unnecessary Return Paul Howard 2011

Now, amid the state's worst - whooping-cough outbreak in half a century, school officials are cracking down.

A Shot in the Arm for Kids in California 2010

Culpeper endorsed elecampane wholeheartedly: “It has not its equal in the cure of whooping-cough in children, when all other medicines fail.”

Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008

Had I been born just a century earlier, I would likely have died at age 4 from whooping-cough.

Privilege Zoe Brain 2008

Culpeper endorsed elecampane wholeheartedly: “It has not its equal in the cure of whooping-cough in children, when all other medicines fail.”

Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008