Republicans: if you get sick, die quick. Whooping cough epidemic hits WA
Whooping cough, a highly infectious respiratory disease once considered doomed by science, has struck Washington State this spring with a severity that health officials say could surpass the toll of any year since the 1940s, before a vaccine went into wide use. The state has the highest percentage of parents in the nation who voluntarily exempt their children from one or more vaccines, out of fear of side effects or for philosophical reasons.
