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There have been almost 7,000 cases of whooping cough in California this year, affecting mostly unvaccinated children ages 7-16.

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At the time of their discovery whooping cough killed 6,000 people per year and 95% of them were children.

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  1. Great Valley gumweed is still used to facilitate breathing and in treatment of bronchial asthma, whooping cough and other respiratory disorders associated with large quantity of phlegm in the airways. Other than that, Great Valley gumweed is used in treatment of eczema, burns, poison ivy rash and dermatitis.

  2. Vaccines have been created to prevent a variety of diseases including diphtheria, mumps, measles, rubella, smallpox, polio, whooping cough, chicken pox, shingles, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, pneumonia, meningococcal disease, tetanus, human papillomavirus, and influenza.

  3. Lung infections such as tuberculosis, measles, whooping cough and pneumonia can cause permanent damage to your lungs, resulting in chronic lung infections. This is known as “bronchiectasis”.

  4. Michigan started inoculating children with the vaccine in 1940 and deaths from whooping cough declined.

  5. Rhizome of black cohosh was also used in treatment of arthritis, whooping cough, bronchitis, diarrhea and hypertension in the past, and juice squeezed from the plant in treatment of snake bites.

  6. Willoherb can be used in treatment of whooping cough, hiccups, asthma and various skin disorders in infants. This plant is also used in treatment of bladder, prostate and hormone disorders. Leaves of willowherb have astringent properties (induce constriction of skin and other tissues).

  7. The first Whooping Cough vaccination was developed by two women who studied the disease in their spare time.

  8. CIA biological warfare experiments in 1955 led to there being triple the usual amount of whooping cough cases in Florida in that year.

  9. Director Mike Nichols was left permanently hairless after a botched whooping cough vaccination at age four. He wore a wig, fake eyebrows and eyelashes almost his entire life. There was not a hair on his body.

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