Washington State outbreak info, 2012
Click on the first
choice at this link to see county by county vaccination surveillance
for kindergartners:
http://www.doh.wa.gov/cfh/immunize/schools/schooldatarprts.htm
This link has general exemption info: xemption rates www.doh.wa.gov/cfh/immunize/documents/k-12exemptco09-10.pdf2
Click here for the weekly pertussis updates: http://www.doh.wa.gov/Topics/pertussis2012/
If
you put all of that together as of this date, May 31, 2012, you can see
that Whatcom, Skagit, Snohomish and San Juan Counties are all at
epidemic levels for pertussis and all have pertussis vaccination rates
below herd immunity levels: Whatcom, pertussis vax rate in kinders is
88.8% for 2011-12 school year, dtap is 88,8%. Other counties with
outbreaks: Skagit 91.7% dtap vaxed, Snohomish 92.3%, San Juan 76.5% HA!
The case for pertussis being more likely if you are unvaxed, in Australia
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150912367858588&set=a.144130563587.111188.143367983587&type=3&theater
A blog post by the awesome SkewedDistribution, about pertussis
http://skeweddistribution.com/2012/05/14/true-or-false-there-are-more-vaccinated-pertussis-cases-than-unvaccinated/
