Thank you for information.
By the way, I did not appreciate the reference to the "Jewish mumps" as a
scare.
 It is very painfully real. I am living in the middle of it. The outbreak
started last Summer by a few kids, who came from England. Most of the
victims are boys ages 12 - 20. Vaccination does not make a difference. So
fan nothing has stopped the spread of Mumps, It is still going strong.
All of my kids had Mumps, including my 12 year old son (he got it first),
and as a desert I got them 3 weeks before delivering my baby. My oldest and
I were vaccinated and coincidentally we had more severe cases. Besides the
discomfort of Mumps it was incredibly scary to have it so close to birth. No
one could tell me if it would affect the baby. The only person in our family
to escape the Mumps was my DH, who had it naturally when he was a child. And
yes the Mumps seem to be confined to only Jewish residents of our
neighborhood, which is very strange.
Unfortunately, despite numerous requests the Health Department is not
investigating this outbreak.

-- 
Henya
Brooklyn, NY

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On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 10:44 AM, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Dr. Jay Gordon's newsletter landed in my inbox this morning.  This new
> issue specifically addresses the pertussis outbreak in California,
> where he practices.  Marie, you may want to go to
> http://drjaygordon.com/newsletter and sign up for this newsletter to
> get another perspective.
>
> Here are a few quotes from the current newsletter:
>
> "Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is a bacterial respiratory
> tract infection. It begins looking like most other upper respiratory
> illnesses:
>
> There may be nothing more than a runny nose and sneezing, often with
> little or no fever.  The first coughs can look like a  common cold.
> After 1-2 weeks, this may progress to a stage characterized by bursts
> of numerous rapid coughs (paroxysms, a "machine gun" cough) followed
> by a loud "whooping" inhalation which gives Bordetella Pertussis the
> alternative name of "whooping cough."  That "whoop," however is not an
> invariable part of the illness.   A final recovery stage with coughing
> may last weeks or months. It's a nasty illness which the Chinese call
> the "100 day cough" and their number is not far off.  In most cases,
> whooping cough is a truly miserable cough that can ruin a family's
> summer plans and mean a lot of missed days of work and school. In very
> rare cases, it can lead to much more serious conditions. The risk is
> highest for infants in the first six weeks of life who can get very
> sick and even die from it.
>
> ...
>
> This time, unlike the H1N1 "pandemic" scare, the avian flu hype, the
> measles epidemic of 132 cases, the Jewish mumps scare and the West
> Nile Virus fear posters at every trail head, the pertussis outbreak
> information might be real and might be a reason to consider getting
> your child vaccinated. "
>
> Sara Dodder Furr, MA, LLLL, IBCLC
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