Many whooping cough victims have been immunized; Experts spar over prospects of new disease strain « Watchdog Institute

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By Joanne Faryon KPBS and Kevin Crowe Watchdog Institute

Matthew Jacob Bryce was born a healthy 8 pounds, 9 ounces on Oct 11, 2010, so when he showed signs of a cold at just two weeks, his parents knew something more might be wrong. They were not first-time parents.

“He was just really stuffy. He was having difficulty breathing,” Marlon, Matthew’s father, recalled.

The doctor suspected whooping cough, although everyone in the house had been vaccinated. For Marlon and Cindy Bryce, a young couple who had met in San Diego when both were in the Navy, it was a terrible prospect: whooping cough, known also as pertussis, can be fatal in babies.

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To me this seems like a natural outgrowth of the mass-vaccination movement. I think some vaccinations are appropriate for immuno-compromised people and people who are going into areas with diseases that are deadly to those for whom they are not endemic, but vaccinating everyone against anything for which a vaccine can be developed encourages the evolution of pathogens and they evolve much more quickly than we do.

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