and my mom holding me upright in the rocking chair all night. Not much in the way of antibiotics back then. The cough produced brown goo.

over time.

http://www.fosters.com/news/20180623/maine-and-nh-declare-whooping-cough-outbreak

According to Dr. Apara Dave, an infectious disease specialist with Core Physicians in Exeter, whooping cough outbreaks are not all that uncommon.

“The Exeter area is pretty well-vaccinated,” Dave said. “Pertussis outbreaks here would not be driven by under-immunization. That can be the case for larger populations where people of mixed backgrounds come into close contact. That’s why it often spreads in a place like a school because there are a relatively large group of people together in one building.”

The vaccine just isn't effective for that long. They don't appear to encourage booster shots at all. As far as I know, the ONLY time they encourage vaccines for older people is when they have a new baby.

If you're unhappy with the recommended vaccine schedule, then maybe you should be pressuring public health officials to change it. Scapegoating the "anti-vaxers" won't accomplish a damn thing.

I've been getting DPT or T-DAP shots since
I was little.

We will this and other diseases rise up as the looney tune conspiracy segment of America continue to kill their kids needlessly....

No mention of enrollment anywhere, people are skipping vaccines, flu shots, not seeking medical attention, walking sick, we all are in danger, rich and poor, when you have a fucking sick society.

Vaccinations are all about the rate of public participation.

But the cases are also less serious than when babies and toddlers get it.

I read somewhere years ago that a significant fraction of the coughs that come into emergency rooms turn out to be whooping cough. But the disease doesn't hit adults nearly as hard, so they're likely to run around with it.

My fully -immunized niece got whooping cough when she was in high school, and it just seemed like a bad cold.

http://www.fosters.com/news/20180623/maine-and-nh-declare-whooping-cough-outbreak

According to Dr. Apara Dave, an infectious disease specialist with Core Physicians in Exeter, whooping cough outbreaks are not all that uncommon.

“The Exeter area is pretty well-vaccinated,” Dave said. “Pertussis outbreaks here would not be driven by under-immunization. That can be the case for larger populations where people of mixed backgrounds come into close contact. That’s why it often spreads in a place like a school because there are a relatively large group of people together in one building.”

It's a pain and incessant for more than about a month - mine went on for about six weeks. But I was a fifty year old person at the time. I had not had a booster for the pertussis bacteria since childhood. I've since been re-vaccinated (about two years ago). It's likely that any adult without any major underlying condition would be okay, but in a very small child - or horrors, a baby - it can be fatal. And if you're a working person, imagine how this sounds to your work colleagues day after day. I wasn't subjecting myself to any of them at that time, because I was out of town and the initial symptoms for the illness are not much different from a cold to begin with. I had a low-grade fever that went away after about 24 hours. I don't know whether I was still infectious for any period thereafter, but I would imagine I was still shedding bacteria (even though it's said that after a fever, a person isn't "contagious" any longer, but who knows?).

It's not just the straight-up anti-vaxxers; a lot of otherwise intelligent adults don't realize they need a booster shot every decade or so.

My other niece is at the high school. This is the first I have heard of anything, but my sister has been travelling on business over the past week and they have been home with her husband. I will have to check in with her tomorrow to see how they are. I hope they are ok.