Israel’s Health Ministry on Wednesday warned of a possible outbreak of whooping cough at a day camp in northern Israel.
A child at a camp on the yishuv of Klil was diagnosed with pertussis on Sunday. The Health Ministry immediately began an epidemiological investigation in which it emerged that the child was not vaccinated against the disease. About 30 people had close contact with the child.
The Health Ministry’s Epidemiological Department directed the management of the summer camp to contact the children’s parents to warn them about the exposure to a pertussis patient. The ministry also sent the parents information about contacting their attending physician for preventive treatment.
“The Health Ministry is continuing the epidemiological investigation and will provide updates as necessary,” the ministry said in a statement. “Whooping cough is a particularly dangerous disease for babies up to six months of age that can cause complications and death. The vaccine given to babies provides protection against several diseases, including whooping cough and polio.”
“The Health Ministry recommends giving a vaccine to women in the third trimester of pregnancy, which allows the pregnant woman to develop antibodies to pertussis at a high level and transfer them through the placenta to the fetus in the womb, thus giving the newborn baby protection until it can receive the vaccine himself.”
“The ministry emphasizes the importance of giving routine vaccinations against infectious diseases, some of which can cause severe complications and death. Adherence to routine vaccinations is important to prevent outbreaks of illness among children and their environment. A vaccinated child is a protected child.”
In June, a four-month-old baby with whooping cough in Ashdod was hospitalized in critical condition, and in May, a ten-week-old infant from Jerusalem passed away from whooping cough.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
Join the official YWN WhatsApp status
10 Responses
No vaccine administered to pregnant women has been tested for safety or efficacy before licensure. The Boostrix insert ambiguously states that the vaccine should be given to pregnant women “only if clearly needed”. From: ‘Combination vaccines and febrile seizures: Should parents be concerned?’ by Marino SA, published in The Vaccine Reaction, March 21, 2019.
The well-documented dangers of the original whole-cell DTP vaccines call into question how much safer the acellular DTaP and Tdap vaccines are when given to children and adults. According to [Barbara Loe] Fisher [co-author of ‘DPT: A Shot in the Dark’, and director of the National Vaccine Information Center], NVIC continues to receive reports of serious reactions and injuries from today’s acellular versions—reactions consistent with those reported following receipt of whole-cell vaccines—including high-pitched screaming, fever over 103 degrees F, collapse or shock, convulsions and brain inflammation.
And again, the anti-vaxers are spewing their conspiracy theories and non sense.
Like a drug addict, all one can say is Nebuch, Nebuch, Nebuch.
@Lastword. I trust the CDC over quack “Doctors” https://www.cdc.gov/pertussis/pregnant/hcp/vaccine-safety.html
@Lastword From the CDC Website:
Both CDC and the Food and Drug Administration monitor vaccine safety through the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a national vaccine safety surveillance program. Published studies that include VAERS data support the safe use of Tdap during pregnancy. To date, VAERS has not found any safety signals among pregnant women or their babies after Tdap vaccination. Administering the vaccine during pregnancy does not put your patients at increased risk for pregnancy complications like low birth weight or preterm delivery.
Pregnant women have been getting both tetanus and diphtheria toxoids (Td) and tetanus toxoid (TT) vaccines worldwide since the 1960s to prevent neonatal tetanus. Td and TT vaccines administered during pregnancy have not been shown to harm either the mother or baby/fetus.
“Venishmartem me-ode al nafshoseichem…”
Get the vaccine. Dont be stupid.
Great!! Another other opportunity for Israel to triple and quadruple vaccinate themselves out of this!!!
It used to be every 3 months the media would run a “scare campaign” vaccine advertisement like this, now it’s once a week. The manufacturers must be getting nervous. Moshe1994, are you honestly quoting Rochelle Walensky and the CDC over doctors, researchers, and whistleblowers actually who care about people over profits? The same Rochelle Walensky that insisted pregnant women and children should be injected when she knew – based on Pfizer data that Pfizer had SEALED FOR SEVENTY FIVE YEARS but B”H a judge forced its early release – that it caused miscarriage, stillbirth, myocarditis, and far worse in the clinical trials. In other words, the CDC knew, and so did she. Yet, she pushed it on every media channel out there, including here. Walensky has now “stepped down” as did Fauci. I wonder why. But the damage is done. Anyone who still trusts the CDC after billions of dollars have exchanged hands in secret public-private partnerships needs a reality check. The federal regulatory agencies (CDC, FDA, NIAID, USDA) are paid through our tax dollars to protect us, our food supply, our medicines. They have clearly been hijacked by special interests that do not care about us.
The CDC also promotes the “chest feeding” of newborns – should we blindly follow that advice, too?
CDC WEBSITE:
Chestfeeding: A term used by many masculine-identified trans people to describe the act of feeding their baby from their chest, regardless of whether they have had chest/top surgery (to alter or remove mammary tissue).
@TYW12345678(nice username) I don’t care about your “Straw-man” argument. Show me a Peer reviewed study against the Tdap vaccine, or be quiet. Thank you.
Exactly. There are NO peer-reviewed studies investigating the harmful effects of vaccines because to conduct a true experiment, half of the participants would have to be assigned to the unvaccinated condition and we couldn’t allow that now, could we? Furthermore, the responsibility lies with the pharm companies to prove the safety of injecting humans starting at infancy with neurotoxins, not on anyone else to prove damages, but either way, no true experiments exist, not one. As far as the CDC is concerned, not a straw argument at all – if they’re lying to you about “chest feeding”, what else are they lying about?