This looks fishy, doesn’t it? Washington residents average just 6.5 grams of fish per day, while Oregonians inhale almost 30 times that? It makes you wonder how on earth Ivar’s manages to stay in business. More worryingly, these fish consumption rates are what the state uses to determine acceptable levels of water pollution. Continue reading Washington State’s Water-Pollution Regs Assume People Hate Fish
“Infants younger than 6 months account for 90 percent of all pertussis-related deaths and the majority of hospitalizations,” reads the Seattle & King County Public Health brief on whooping cough (pertussis). That statistic came into stark relief last Thursday, when a newborn baby died from a cases of pertussis. Continue reading In King County, a Baby Has Died of Whooping Cough
“After the fifth dose of DTaP, the odds of acquiring pertussis increased by an average of 42% per year,” the study’s authors write. Said another way, the overall protection rate of the DTaP vaccine declines to 71 percent from 95 percent by the fifth year after the fifth shot.
For context, unvaccinated children have odds of getting whooping cough “at least eight times higher than children who received all five doses” of DTaP (CDC pdf). Continue reading Whooping Cough Vaccine (DTaP) Not as Long-Lived as Thought
