Over the summer, more than 30 cases of whooping cough have been confirmed in children in Crown Heights, reports the office of local physician Dr. Eli Rosen.
Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is a highly contagious respiratory disease. It is caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis.
Pertussis is known for uncontrollable, violent coughing which often makes it hard to breathe. After fits of many coughs, someone with pertussis often needs to take deep breaths which result in a “whooping” sound. Pertussis most commonly affects infants and young children and can be fatal, especially in babies less than 1 year of age.
Adults and older children who develop whooping cough may suffer from a very prolonged cough illness which is usually not dangerous.
How can I protect my children?
At this time, science at this time suggests that vaccination, while not fool-proof, is the best way of preventing transmission and protecting against contracting whooping cough.
Who can be vaccinated?
1. Expectant mothers can be immunized after 30 weeks in pregnancy so that they transfer protection to their newborn infant prior to birth.
2. New mothers can be vaccinated in order to not contract the illness and protect infants and other children from exposure to the disease
3. Siblings and fathers of newborns in order to not contract the illness and protect other children from exposure to the disease.
4. Infants starting at 2 months of age can receive their first dose of whooping cough vaccine. In order to provide full immunity, 3 doses of vaccine are necessary in the first year of life. All of the above can hopefully protect newborn infants and others from developing this illness and thus as much as possible ensure their safety.
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If you need a medical record to get into school and camp for the health department, and your shots need to be up to date, then how are all these kids in schools and camps?
China has one of the most vaccination compliant populations in the world. In fact, measles vaccine is mandatory. So why have they had over 700 measles outbreaks from 2009 and 2012 alone? The obvious answer is the the measles vaccines are simply NOT effective. A recent study published in PLoS titled, “Difficulties in eliminating measles and controlling rubella and mumps: a cross-sectional study of a first measles and rubella vaccination and a second measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination,” has brought to light the glaring ineffectiveness of two measles vaccines (measles–rubella (MR) or measles–mumps–rubella(MMR) ) in fulfilling their widely claimed promise… Read more »
Don’t risk it…
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Are you kidding me?! Use seichel!!! It’s a respiratory tract infection. It comes from poor air quality among other contributing factors (vitamin imbalances preventing the proper cleaning of the respiratory tract). Get a portable humidifier or vaporizer. Add such natural cleansers as cloves, fresh garlic, fresh onion all or none among others and a spoon of baking soda to a cup of boiling hot water. Stir and let steep then strain and mix with 2x tap water. Add a splash of vinegar and a few splashes of h2o2 (hp)… vaporize , inhale for several minutes at-least 4x a day… whooping… Read more »
My unvaccinated kids got it.
‘Vaccination should be given even though some individuals may suffer from it since it protects the majority and if people would not be vaccinated then these diseases would rampage’
A doctor’s jobs is to heal the sick, not prevent everyone from becoming sick.
You are taking it for granted that with proper efforts everyone can be healthy. Hashem created some people with weak constitutions and compromised health. there areI people who stay alive by being by being on immumosupression. Think of the big picture and the matzov of everyone.
CA passed a law not allowing religious exemptions. Watch the yeshivas will find some way around it. They are worse culprits. If no school would take unvaccinated kids, they would have to keep their kids home. Chutzpah. Their kids safe cause majority vaccinate. Rebbe said do as the majority of community does.
Homeopathic med dont work for this virus. Dont spend your hard earned money on this. Your kid is not safe using homeopathy, ask a prominent pediatrician as the rebbe would recommend. #34 The opinion of the rebbe was not only to vaccinate but also to ask your doctor and not come up with your own conclusions (especially if your are not an trained and studied specialist you should def. discard your naive conclusions ). It does not matter that now we can protect kids even more with more vaccines, the Rebbe would ask a prominent doctor and the doctor will… Read more »
I urge everybody that was convinced by a hippie that vaccination is not good to watch this movie of a kid suffering with this malady https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3oZrMGDMMw If you heard that you should not vaccinate your kid then tell the person who told you that to call the pediatrician and convince him in front of you. People who does not vaccinate use deceptive websites with lots of misleading information to misguide you just to promote their “natural” way of life, which in turn has nothing to do with Torah Judaism. Dont allow yourself to be fooled by this new wave mishigaz… Read more »
Let me get this straight: So a parent lacks resources or oversight. A child goes some time without an acceptable daily diet. (Whether because they didn’t get enough, or got bad foods) Their health declines, and they become increasingly susceptible to bacteria. One day their body fails to defend against a bacteria and gets colonized and they start coughing etc. They go to the doctor… The doctor talks about the name of whatever bacteria that got through while the body’s defenses were down. Then goes on a campaign to get everyone injected with the bacteria to help get rid of… Read more »
1) Since it’s very serious, the health department called and asked alot of questions. That’s where they get there information from.
2) the vaccination doesn’t help the coughing. It stops the spreading .
3) PLEASE TAKE THIS VIRUS VERY SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!
Homeopathic “medication”? any double blind studies that support its efficacy? Of course not. Any supposed benefit from these ‘remedies’ is only a placebo effect. The only way to differentiate the placebo effect and medication that actually works is through peer reviewed studies, such as a double blind study.
Otherwise, any youkel can make his own medication and sell to gullible people with no oversight whatsoever.
Chabad
Should be aware that any outbreak of illness is a danger for our community , the whooping cough can be spread easily because the first symptoms are like common cold so many people wouldn’t be concern ….
Make your own decision …but in addition to vaccisination must be a public education how to prevent it or not spread it inside the community …. or any other hygiene methods
Expectant mothers may actually be immunized starting at the completion of 27 weeks of pregnancy.
You should cut posts from people who gainsay angainst vaccination. Those people are rodfim
Where and when did the Rebbe say to vaccinate children with 50+ vaccinations? They didn’t have even half od these vaccines 10 years ago…
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Recent studies have shown that those who are vaccinated (with either DTaP or Tdap) and still get whooping cough are much more likely to have a mild illness compared to those who never received the vaccine. This means that if you get a whooping cough vaccine and still get whooping cough, you will have fewer coughing fits, shorter illness, and be less likely to suffer from disease complications. By getting the vaccine during pregnancy, you will also transfer antibodies (proteins produced by the body to fight off diseases) to your baby. Even if your baby gets whooping cough, these antibodies… Read more »
There are lots of us who won’t go near a vaccine. You can talk till you’re blue in the face and call us whatever you’d like. Try giving us guilt trips, citing sources, whatever. We’re confident in our decision to stay away from that poison.
THEREFORE:
You may as well stop poisoning yourselves too. According to your herd immunity belief, your shots are not effective. Why lose out with all those toxins?
Lol
I agree.
The Dr’s should also teach people how to build their immune system so they won’t be getting sick!
Your ignorance on how vaccines work is extremely dangerous and can C”VSH lead to deaths in the community. Vaccines don’t claim to be 100% effective. In general, childhood whooping cough vaccines (called DTaP) are effective for 8 or 9 out of 10 children who receive them. Among children who get all 5 doses of DTaP vaccine on schedule, effectiveness is very high within the year following the 5th dose — nearly all children (98 out of 100) are fully protected. There is a modest decrease in effectiveness in each following year. About 7 out of 10 of children are fully… Read more »
It’s all about the money, look it up yourself!
Maybe there should be a seperate office for unvaccinated children
I once heard dr rosen on the phone with a patient who was apparently trying to convince him that he shouldn’t be taking a certain medication because of it’s side effects. Dr rosen responded- “Do you think I don’t know the side effects! I’m telling you to take it because you need it, and not taking it would be worse for you than the side effects!”
We need to trust our doctors.
Thank you Dr. Rosen for being a real rofeh yedid!
I guess you are more wise than the Rebbe who advised people to vaccinate their children.
Seat belts save lives. There are some minority of cases where a seat belt can be harmful (eg in a car fire). However, risk analysis tells us for every 1 life that is harmed by seatbelts, 10,000s are saved by seatbelts.
Risk analysis of vaccines are that vaccines save millions of lives and have serious side effects in a tiny minority. Torah and the Rebbe dictate that in such a case it is imperative to listen to the experts.
The medical community does NOT claim that Vaccines are always 100% effective. In fact the efficacy is dependent on various factors. In general, childhood whooping cough vaccines (called DTaP) are effective for 8 or 9 out of 10 children who receive them. Among children who get all 5 doses of DTaP vaccine on schedule, effectiveness is very high within the year following the 5th dose — nearly all children (98 out of 100) are fully protected. There is a modest decrease in effectiveness in each following year. About 7 out of 10 of children are fully protected 5 years after… Read more »
WOW DR ROSEN REALLY CONVINCED ME! his article, with its rational balancing of the risks and benefits of the vaccine and then the WEBSITE he sends us to which has let me count them ok it’s ZERO words about any side effects of the vaccine, has me totally convinced!
shoot me up!
My child was one of the 30 cases of whooping cough. It is very frustrating as I do bh vaccinate my children. For all those UNEDUCATED individuals who don’t know how vaccination works, learn about it and you will see that vaccination only works when everyone does it. You have 30% of ch people who are SELFISH and think of only them selves who don’t vaccinate their children that is why someone like my child got the whooping cough. Pure chutzpah! More then that I have a baby at home who was too young to get the vaccine and caught… Read more »
Do you think the Rebbe was fooled by ‘big pharma’ when he advised people to vaccinate?
Are you more informed than the Rebbe?
Who gave you permission to put children’s lives at risk, and going against the Rebbe’s instructions?
Make sure children are eating a balanced diet of fresh nutritious foods.
Lack of essential vitamins and minerals in the body contribute to virus and bacteria illness.
and, get your mind right.
All of the people who’ve contracted it have been vaccinated.Haha! And they are still asking people to buy vaccines!
Pls parents of sick kids and sick adults avoid public places for the period of illness ….
It can be caught/ in the building common area , Shul or playground …..
If you seek stay home pls and notify your friends not to visit you ….
our daughter had whooping cough as an infant after having had the shot. she is here today b”h bc she had the shot. had she not had the shot opur story would have chasv”sh ended differently.
BS”D
if Dr Rosen says vaccinate then vaccinate
if you do not trust his judgment then why do you go to him
at the very least it will make the cough milder
If a parent chooses to not vaccinate their child, then they should home school them.
Simple. End of story.
Immunizations only work when everyone gets vaccinated.
Those who do not do it, are putting everyone else at risk.
Minimize that risk by not allowing unvaccinated children into our schools.
Those that do not vaccinate make a place for the disease to take hold and spread to others. Researchers are finding that the newer DTaP vaccine does not last as long as they old one, but it can still be effective. It is an chilul hshem when these things pop up in the frum community as if we were living in some third world country.,
Stop being trolls of the media. Vaccinations when done properly, given to everyone who can safely be vaccinated, are effective. Medicine says so, science says so, the Torah says so and the Rebbe says so. If you refuse to vaccinate your children based on tinfoil hat theories or other stupidities, you hate children. The only word that can be used to describe you is “Idiot” because frankly, no proof, logic or fact speaks to you otherwise when you run to lactation consultants and herbal hippie healers over doing what the REBBE said to do: to follow the miracle and taste… Read more »
than unvaccinated individuals. Herd immunity is extremely important.
If you don’t vaccinate and your ten-month old gets whooping cough and dies, you will NEVER forgive yourself. EVER.
Also, you need a booster every five to ten years, just BTW.
There are many more vaccines now than when I was a child in the early 50’s. Back then we had to catch measles, mumps, chickenpox and German measles, and mothers tried their best to make sure we got them as children because in adults those diseases can be life-threatening. However, we did already have vaccines for smallpox, diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough, everybody got vaccinated, and Baruch Hashem nobody got those diseases. Only lately since fringe elements go around saying vaccinating is dangerous are they popping up again. How will you feel if your child chas veshalom dies of whooping… Read more »
What Are the opinions of DR. Robert M. Feldman, DR. Horowitz and DR. Plaut, ???
Unfortunately, it’s the children who will suffer the worst and potentially fatal effects of refusing to vaccinate, even though it’s their parents decision. I wish we could infect the parents who refuse to vaccinate and let them see how it feels to suffer through a bout of whooping cough. Then, having lived through it, they can decide what to do for their kids. Sadly, it’s not the case. So the innocent suffer at the hands of the naive and foolish, even though the foolish are their own parents! May G-D bless the children and protect them, since their own parents… Read more »
if those news reports are credible then nobody should vaccinate – its just the big pharma companies – making a ton of money off of these vaccinations – that are telling the doctors to vaccinate our children. especially here where there is proof the vaccination is not working you shouldn’t vaccinate. protect your children and don’t vaccinate!
I am what you might call a cautious vaccinator, and vaccinate very slowly. but i would not be stupid and not vaccinate for whopping cough. please do it
“The district tells us all of the people who’ve contracted it have been vaccinated.” -according to kwch eyewitness news
This cannot end well…
“The district tells us all of the people who’ve contracted it have been vaccinated.” – according to local news
Is there any information on whether the 30 cases are from vaccinated or unvaccinated individuals?
needs tobe done imm,aboutn3 weeks ago,l open to a letter from the rebbe to check our mezuzahs now ,not in elul,we need to make sure they are replace on the proper spot as it says in the code of jewish law,it’s needs to be 2/3 from the bottom,1/3 from the top,l have sent a copy of the letter to the people in my condo,the manger doesn’t wanna check them untill elul,we see the rebbe is telling us something that’s vital,we need to listen,it’s for our own good,please undertake tzinus too,this is for ourselves