CA Whooping Cough Outbreak: All 30 Students Were Vaccinated
California: Officials at an upscale private Los Angeles high school said that a lack of vaccinations does not explain an outbreak of whooping cough, as 30 students, all of them vaccinated, have reportedly been diagnosed with whooping cough, also known as pertussis. The vaccine was reported to provide protection for four years. Only 18 of Harvard-Westlake’s roughly 1,600 students have medical exemptions allowing them to opt out of immunizations, and none of those students have contracted the disease. Los Angeles County officials reported that all 90 people who have recently come down with whooping cough within the county this year had been immunized against it.
