... in 1988; multiple instances of salmonella; staphylococcal food poisoning; measles outbreaks in 1987, 1990 and 1995; numerous outbreaks of pertussis (whooping cough), anthrax in 2001 and West Nile virus in 2002.         Always a nurse         Tanuz was born ("at home!") in Pecos in 1951 and grew up in ...
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... "immunization" or "vaccine" was mentioned in 49 columns. We have remarkable new vaccines, such as those that make serious infections like meningitis, whooping cough and a severe virus-caused type of diarrhea rarities now. I've seen these diseases myself since I came to New Mexico in 1970. Some columns ...
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... have never been confronted by measles, or polio or tetanus. They have not stayed awake for days on end with a baby struggling to breathe with whooping cough.     We are fortunate that vaccines have changed the landscape of disease in our children, keeping them healthy and safe from devastating diseases ...
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... Health Secretary Alfredo Vigil said Thursday it's important for children to be immunized against serious and sometimes fatal diseases, such as whooping cough and measles.     "The benefits of vaccines hugely outweigh any theoretical risk," he said in a statement.     Vigil's comments were in response ...
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... Health Secretary Alfredo Vigil said Thursday it's important for children to be immunized against serious and sometimes fatal diseases, such as whooping cough and measles.     "The benefits of vaccines hugely outweigh any theoretical risk,'' he said in a statement.     Vigil's comments ...
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... ."     With sparkling blue eyes and a ready smile, Schappet is the quintessential proponent of positive thinking. Debilitated with damaged lungs by whooping cough at age 5, his family was told by doctors not to expect him to live past age 26.     "I was home sick as much as in school," Schappet says ...
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... of not protecting your children against diseases that are still circulating across the world is much scarier. Every year we investigate cases of whooping cough, and almost every year infants in New Mexico die from the preventable disease.     We will continue our work with the New Mexico Immunization ...
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... shot for tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis, under new state rules.     The key intent of the new rule is to curb the incidence of pertussis, or whooping cough, which is especially dangerous to infant children, said Anna Pentler, executive director of the New Mexico Immunization Coalition.     The incidence ...
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... . Diphtheria, which causes a thick covering in the back of the throat, can lead to breathing problems, paralysis and death. Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, causes severe coughing spells. It can lead to pneumonia and hospitalization from complications.     People who don't have a health provider ...
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