Map shows where '100-day-cough' is soaring in Merseyside
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
Cases of the highly contagious disease are spreading rapidly in one area of the region

yeah I know some people call it the 100 day cough, it just makes it sound unserious to me. Maybe it’s more common in the UK though.

Also

Earlier this year the UKHSA warned that uptake of the maternal Whooping Cough vaccine had dropped to its lowest level in seven years.

Good, so yet again it’s likely due to increased anti-vax sentiment in the west

  • daisy@hexbear.netEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I had pertussis about 10 years ago (as an adult). It was the most horrifying few weeks of my life. Waking up repeatedly at night feeling like I was drowning, frantically trying to inhale air, it was just awful.

    Edit, ranting further: Parents or guardians who deliberately deny their children the proper vaccination (for reasons other than legitimate medical ones of course) rank pretty fucking high on my list of people who deserve gulag time. I’m a big outwardly-unemotional cis man, all that repressed-emotion-toxicity that I’m trying to shake off still pretty firmly attached. But if you want to instantly make me turn into a teary mess, show me a video of a tired, crying toddler with pertussis gasping for air.