Health Officials Urge Vaccines for Whooping Cough Epidemic
Health care officials are warning that the state's whooping cough, or pertussis, epidemic has yet to peak in several areas around California and are calling for individuals to get vaccines or booster shots. Officials are concerned that uninsured and underinsured individuals could experience problems finding a vaccine clinic because the recently enacted state budget package removed $18 million from the Infectious Disease Branch's immunization program.
- "Officials Warn the Worst Is Yet To Come, and More Adults Need To Be Vaccinated" (Abram, Los Angeles Daily News, 11/6).