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How did someone get whooping cough?
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Peter | Report | 21 Mar 2005 22:43 |
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It is a Virus. Virus = vaccine Bacteria = antibiotic |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 21 Mar 2005 22:49 |
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I was one of the 'test group' of children who received a modified form of the Whooping Cough Vaccine after the first scare. It gave me Whooping Cough! And I had it in a mild form, every winter until my late teens. I can remember my Gran making a steam blanket to try to help me breathe - I had a coughing fit and threw up in the basin of hot water, all over the blanket and my Gran's slippers. She wasn't amused. An interesting side-line to this, when I was about ten, we had a TB test at school. I was the only child who had a positive reaction, which meant that either I had had it, or I had a natural immunity. The Doctors were very interested in this and it later emerged that the type of test vaccine I had been given for Whooping Cough actually gave an immunity to TB. Marjorie |
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