Yea, a bunch of those vaccines are only cause a temporary immunity. It lasts long enough to get kids through the vulnerable stages, but by late adolescence the immunity is wearing off or already gone. They noticed a sharp upswing in adult cases of whooping cough, in 2004 or so, and recently started coming up with plans to begin vaccinating adults again, more to protect newborn populations that are at risk before their first scheduled DPT vaccine at 2 months or so.
Ok, I'll stop lecturing now. Fell better soon, and I third and fourth the cough medicine thing.
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Date: 2009-11-20 06:27 pm (UTC)Ok, I'll stop lecturing now. Fell better soon, and I third and fourth the cough medicine thing.
~Patrick