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Everyday Medicine · 966 like this
November 8, 2010 at 5:39am ·
  • Whooping cough cases are on the rise(significantly)...for adults it's not usually a big deal, but it can be fatal to young children. If you have not gotten a pertussis booster since your original childhood vaccination, you need to get one ASAP. Adults are the number one vector for spreading pertussis to young children...vaccination/booster can prevent this.
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      • Everyday Medicine Recent news article for KY Post...

        http://www.kypost.com/dpps/news/national/10-babies-dead-due-to-whooping-cough,-but-what-about-the-tri-state%3F!_5288951
        November 8, 2010 at 5:40am
      • John Robinson But what's the worst parasite you ever saw?
        November 8, 2010 at 5:42am
      • Everyday Medicine Parasites give me the willies.
        November 8, 2010 at 5:50am
      • John Robinson They'll give you more than that!
        November 8, 2010 at 5:51am
      • Everyday Medicine The one I have never seen in my own practice is the guinea worm...that thing makes me nauseated.
        November 8, 2010 at 5:51am
      • Everyday Medicine Of course...the one we are seeing on a daily basis here(but doesn't spread anything...that we know of) is bed bugs.
        November 8, 2010 at 5:54am
      • John Robinson Billy Mallon insists the worst ones are radiologists! We read xrays and ultrasounds all night and weekend and base our patient care decisions on our read and then the radiologist drives in Monday morning, reads said xray while drinking a cup of coffee and he gets paid for it!
        November 8, 2010 at 8:08am