Confirmed Whooping Cough Case in Huntington, West Virginia

[Lasher]

Last edited Thu Sep 19, 2013, 09:42 AM - Edit history (1)

I know for a fact that there has been at least one confirmed case. Trust me, you don't want to get this disease.

Make sure vaccinations for you and yours are up to date. Here is a Summary of Vaccine Recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control.

I need to get a Tdap booster because I haven't had one in 10 years or more. I spent a good part of today just figuring out the best way to go about getting that. Long story short, the local Rite Aid pharmacy will give me a Tdap shot and bill my prescription drug insurance provider, Express Scripts. My share will be $32.50.

I just learned that the health department in Huntingon is giving these shots free. If you call your local health department you might be able to get your vaccinations free there too.

Long story short, if you decide to go to a local clinic or your primary care physician, call first to make sure they administer the vaccination. And make especially sure your insurance provider will cover at least part of it.

Pertussis (Whooping Cough) Main page at the Centers for Disease Control

Edit: I just confirmed that my local VA clinic has the Tdap vaccine, and my doctor there wants me to come in for a shot ASAP. I don't know what my cost will be.

[dem in texas]

1. this disease is so terrible

I am 74 years old and I will never forget when one of neighbor's little 2 year got the whooping cough. I was about 6 or 7, so it was 1946 or 47.. The little girl, Loretta, was gasping for air and making the classic whopping noise. Her mother could drive my mother could not. So another neighbor watched all the little kids and my mother held Loretta and the neighbor drove to hospital with them in the car. Loretta survived. As a matter of fact, I had lunch with her a few months back. I remember when the whooping cough vaccine became available, around that same time, we were lined up at school in a long hallway and nurses gave us shots. How, oh, how. can people not get their children vaccinated?

[PADemD]

2. My repost from another thread.

If you think you don't need a booster, ask yourself these questions:

Can you afford to be sick and out of work for a whole month?

How would you feel about getting no sleep from coughing all day and night?

Would you enjoy coughing so hard that you throw up everything you eat or drink?

How would you like sleeping with a bucket by your bed because you wake up coughing and do not have time to get to the bathroom to throw up?


I got whooping cough at age 11 and wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

[blkmusclmachine]

3. But, but, but... "Don't Tread on Huntington WV!"

[hollowdweller]

4. I have a friend

Who was talking about all her kids being sick with chicken pox.

I mentioned that there was a vaccine for that and she remarked she was skeptical of vaccines and that it made the kids "stronger" to have to go thru some stuff.

I can remember being sick as a dog from chicken pox, missed like 2 weeks of school and how much I missed playing with my friends who were well, so it thought that was totally irresponsible, to have a way to prevent suffering in your kids and not do it.

[Sanddog42]

5. Shingles

As someone dealing with yet another outbreak of recurring shingles, I can honestly say I don't feel stronger for having had chicken pox.

Bleh!