A four-month-old baby with whooping cough was hospitalized in critical condition in the pediatric intensive care unit at Assuta Ashdod Hospital last week.
The baby was suffering from severe coughing and breathing difficulties – to the point of turning blue – before being hospitalized on Wednesday. Since then, his breathing issues have improved but he is still in the PICU due to his severe cough.
There has been an increase in cases of whooping cough in babies and toddlers in Israel since February. Last month, a ten-week-old infant from Jerusalem passed away from the disease.
The hospital issued a statement emphasizing that vaccination of the mother during pregnancy for whooping cough would have prevented the current situation.
Dr. Noa Rosenfeld, director of the PICU at the hospital and the attending physician, said: “The pertussis (whooping cough) vaccines are extremely important and life-saving. The younger the baby, the higher the chances of death, and the severe damage to the brain and heart is irreversible. I call on all parents not to take risks and get all the required vaccinations before and after birth.”
Dr. Maya Heled-Akiva, a specialist in pediatric infectious diseases at Assuta, said: “Whooping cough is a disease caused by a bacterium and can be prevented by the routine vaccinations and immunization of the mother during pregnancy. The pertussis bacterium attacks the respiratory system and causes coughing fits in children and adults that last for many weeks and even several months.”
“In newborns and babies, it can cause very serious illness and even death. One out of five babies with whooping cough under the age of two months will be hospitalized and one out of 100 babies under the age of two months with whooping cough will die from the complications of the disease.”
“The antibiotic treatment administered upon diagnosis does not significantly change the course of the disease and therefore vaccination and prevention of the disease is extremely important.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Bla bla bla bla…
Treat these kids! Just go to Dr Susan Humphries website and follow her vitamin C protocol! It works all the time and she clearly states the medication is helpless and worthless!
Fear mongering, and more misinformation, no wonder the Joe Rogan debate with Peter hotez one of the most prominent pro Vax vocal doctors has reached 1.5 million and he will still refuse to debate Robert Kennedy Junior…
Yeah, they have no science to show…
Bla bla bla?!
You probably did not know that pertussis used to be one of the leading causes of death in infants.
For instance in Senegal before the vaccine about 9% of deaths before the age of 5 were from pertussis.
The death rate was about 3.5-6.2 per thousand babies (depending on the country)!
So, there is no science to show…
Let’s try to keep sane and protect our children!
Maybe the anti-vaxxers can share some of their profits with us?
Modrator: The comment from Yehoshua45 is totally irresponsible and must be removed to avoid further tragedies!
The prevalence of pertussis is increasing as those segments of the population ( primarily חרדים) continue to oppose vaccination
This case is sad, but likely one in a long chain to come
This vaccine has never undergone any safety studies to check if it is safe in pregnancy.
Sweden abandoned its whooping cough vaccine after it examined 5,140 cases of whooping cough in 1978 and found that 84 percent had been vaccinated three times. Vaccination Prevents Natural Immunity. If you contract pertussis without getting the vaccine, you will have immunity for life.
Dr. Suzanne Humphries has written a great article about treating whooping cough with lipospheric vitamin C, even for babies. Search: ‘Sodium ascorbate/ Vitamin C treatment of whooping cough.’
Be sure to keep up the cod liver oil during the illness as vitamin A helps lung function. Between 1922 and 1939, cod liver oil imports increased 25-fold from two million pounds per year to fifty million pounds per year. During this boom, manufacturers marketed cod liver oil specifically for its ability to decrease the harmfulness of measles and other infectious diseases. Here are some highlights from a typical cod liver oil advertisement from that era:
Whooping cough, measles, mumps, chicken pox, scarlet fever may do greater harm than most mothers think, but the children have lighter cases, they recover quicker and are less likely to be left with some permanent injury, if they build up good general resistance in advance to fight them. . . . Because cod-liver oil supplies an abundance of vitamin A, doctors recommend it for children daily. It is such a fine resistance builder! In fact, good cod liver oil is one of the richest sources of vitamin A mothers can give. Don’t wait until your child catches one of the “common” diseases. Give him [or her] [our brand] cod liver oil now!
Why did yeshiva world remove a life saving comment that was on here just a few hours ago? You are making it more and more obvious that you are driven by an agenda rather than care to save lives.
Vaccination is required al pi halacha. Failing to vaccinate is mamish a mesira!
Was I included in the 56%?
Ohh 56% of the people working for YWN. Now I get it.
Right but most republicans still want him to run. And even those who prefer DeSantis, would end up voting for trump in the elections if it came down to that
Lets put this into perpective.
2020-2022, YWN pushes and flows with the major vaccine propaganda movement (for whatever drive and need- leave the conspiracies for someone else).
2023, and YWN start to publish some articles seeming to take a more understanding and rational perspective, rather than an infatuated and emotional conglomeration of different news sites all coming together under the name YWN.
And now they want to repeat.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA….
Grow up YWN, look for attention where you can get it, not were you’ll end up running after the “shticky tatteh’s”.
Shomrei Pesa’im Hashem
Even if the vaccine is bad, we as Jews has an extra protection as long as we follow normal guidelines.
(Check out the Rashi in Yevamos, and even the Ritva who argues, we clearly poskin like Rashi)
nothing at all to do with my comment, like as if I disagree with you.
I was just referring to YWN confused AP representative running around looking for attention attitude…