Australia Thursday warned travellers to the United States to watch out for a whooping cough outbreak which has claimed the lives of several babies.The foreign affairs department said a number of American states had been hit by the disease including California, where local reports say nine babies have died.
“Several US states have reported an increase in cases and/or localised outbreaks of pertussis (whooping cough), including a state-wide epidemic in California,” the travel advice says.
“The United States government’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises it is not necessary to delay travel to an area that is experiencing a pertussis outbreak, but visitors should make sure they are up to date on their vaccines.”
I’m almost at the point where we should do two things with families that have unvaccinated children:
Isolate them in some kind of penal colony where they can’t infect anyone else.
Take the kids away because their parents are clearly abusing them.
I’m sorry; it’s 2010. There’s no excuse for not vaccinating your kids, Jenny McCarthy be damned.