The Iloilo City Government, through its Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, has officially declared an outbreak of pertussis (whooping cough) during Monday’s emergency meeting, March 25, 2024.
for more dr. cory aber. what is your professional conclusion? is there risk in vaccines to the level where it has people have to be concerned about it being mandatory? well honestly, after doing research for the last 20 years in this field, at this point there are no scientifically-based studies to say that there is anymore risk in vaccination that would cause you to not want to vaccinate your child because of the risks of the actual diseases that are out there in the united states right now. for example, we re talking about the measles vaccine. measles vaccine is very important. but in california we also had a measles outbreak. we also had a meningitis outbreak. we also had a pertussis outbreak. and let s be very clear here.
it was only 131 cases in the state of california. only 24 of those were among school-aged children and they were not none of them contracted it in school or gave it to anyone in school. we actuallies i would proclaim 131 cases of measles as a victory for our quarantine and isolation procedures. doctor should parents be afraid to vaccinate their children? you know it s 2015 and i m concerned that we are still having this debate. we can try to minimalize the measles outbreak at disneyland but we shouldn t try to minimalize the pertussis outbreak in california which has killed kids as well as the meningitis outbreak at santa barbara. so we have to make sure that we don t get into emotion when we talk about vaccination. emotion has no place in the paradigm so you think california did the right thing, you think california did the right thing?