"We do believe that declining vaccination rates are impacting this, he told reporters on Sept. 29. Mississippi, as you know, scores very high with our rate of vaccination for our infants and school-aged children, but we don't score nearly as well with adults. And so, our concern is that adult Mississippians are not maintaining the pertussis immunity, which puts our babies at risk."
"Don't complain about the shutdown, America. You voted for these people, and you get the government you deserve. You voted to hand the House of Representatives to the dregs of American conservatism because you voted for the state legislatures that gerrymandered the country into that possibility. You voted for the senators who voted to hand the nation's public health institutions over to a traveling medicine show huckster with a dead whale's head atop his minivan."
"A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough, the Mississippi State Department of Health announced on Monday, marking the state's first whooping cough death in 13 years. The infant was less than two months old and was not old enough to receive the pertussis vaccine, the agency said. Mississippi has seen 115 pertussis cases from Jan. 1, 2025, to Sept. 29."
An infant in Mississippi under two months old died of whooping cough, marking the state's first pertussis death in 13 years. The infant was too young to receive the pertussis vaccine. Mississippi reported 115 pertussis cases from Jan. 1, 2025, to Sept. 29, compared with 49 cases in all of 2024. The state's last whooping cough deaths occurred in 2008 and 2012. State Health Officer Dr. Dan Edney linked the increase to declining vaccination rates among adults and warned that waning adult pertussis immunity places infants at greater risk. Political commentary blamed anti-vaccine beliefs and political choices for public health deterioration.
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