Confirmed Whooping Cough Case in Huntington, West Virginia

[dem in texas]

1. this disease is so terrible

I am 74 years old and I will never forget when one of neighbor's little 2 year got the whooping cough. I was about 6 or 7, so it was 1946 or 47.. The little girl, Loretta, was gasping for air and making the classic whopping noise. Her mother could drive my mother could not. So another neighbor watched all the little kids and my mother held Loretta and the neighbor drove to hospital with them in the car. Loretta survived. As a matter of fact, I had lunch with her a few months back. I remember when the whooping cough vaccine became available, around that same time, we were lined up at school in a long hallway and nurses gave us shots. How, oh, how. can people not get their children vaccinated?