Whooping Cough and Pesticide Programs
California Counties 2010
by Jim West

This is in response to unsupported mainstream media claims that vaccine exemptions caused the recent Whooping Cough ("pertussis") epidemic.  Those claims were made by omitting the obvious toxicology of pertussis epidemics. 

I have created a table (see below) with toxicological data included with pertussis data for California.  The table demonstrates that pest quarantines (implicit pesticide spray programs) correlate well with the recent 2010 pertussis epidemic.

June, 2010, pertussis spiked in California.  June-Aug is the season for pertussis epidemics, which is also the season for pesticide spray programs, quarantines, and peak outdoor air pollution.

Legend for Table

    Quarantine programs
        These implicity require pesticide applications. 
        Produce cannot be moved unless it is certified pest-free.
        [lbam]= light brown apple moth; [egm]= euro grapevine moth; [mff]= medfly;
        [kb]= karnal bunt; [acp]= asian citrus psyllid; [off]= oriental fruit fly

    Spray programs
        These explicitly require pesticide application.
        [chp2 = chp2_Prog Desc.pdf map]

    Light Blue= Counties with zero pertussis incidence and no quarantine programs.
    Yellow= Counties with quarantine programs.
    Light Blue-Green= Counties with no quarantine programs listed.

Disease incidence is cases per 100,000 population.  Other environmental factors are included.

Discussion

All zero-incidence counties are not quarantined.

All pertussis counties are quarantined or have explicit spray programs.

What about claims of bacterial causation?

Diagnostics can include tests for B. Parapertussis bacteria, however, "Because the symptoms during the catarrhal stage are nonspecific, pertussis is usually not diagnosed until the appearance of the characteristic cough of the paroxysmal stage."  [wiki pertussis] 

The bacteria is said to be infectious.  The bacterial paradigm deserves critical investigation due to the problems often found with other germ paradigms, because for example, poliovirus and HIV isolations have not actually been demonstrated.  Apparently the pertussis paradigm originated as a Petri-dish disease, and such bacterial cultures obviously cannot exhibit the symptoms of asthma-like coughing, in order to fulfill Koch Postulate 3, that requires symptoms to establish a germ paradigm.  Aside:  Wiki claims 2 (isolation) can be dispensed with if the germ cannot be isolated, but that is false.  "With Octave Gengou, he [Bordet] isolated Bordetella pertussis in pure culture in 1906 and posited it as the cause of whooping cough."  [wiki gengou] Vaccines were devised and immunization programs soon followed.

Pertussis bacterial paradigm was 'declared' by laboratory researcher Bordet around 1906, and then vaccine programs followed.

Three Postulates

On the basis of the table and a distrust of the bacterial paradigm, we can postulate three revisions:  1) Pertussis is a seasonal pesticide disease, although it possibly can occur any time due to indoor air pollution, such as stove exhaust, indoor pesticide application, etc., or other sources.  Pertussis could also occur due to outdoor air pollution, mining, refineries, vehicular, etc.  Pertussis is a respiratory disease and its symptoms are the body's attempts to avoid breathing polluted air.  The symptoms are a call for help and community alert.  2) Pertussis is not germ caused.   3) The bacterial paradigm is misinfo to confuse pesticide and other pollution diagnostics and to exploit the resulting confusion and disorders. 

This research

This article is a response to recent mainstream propaganda from The New York Times, The Bay Citizen, and California Watch, which promotes the idea that vaccine exemptions cause pertussis, utilizing manipulative titles such as, "Are 10,000 kindergartners driving whooping cough epidemic?" and "Vaccination Rate Lags As an Epidemic Spreads".

Journalist Cristina Jewett, or California Watch, wrote 7/20/2010,

I wrote Jewett on 7/21/2010, twice, to inform her of the association of pesticides and pertussis, and have received no reply to date.

Jewett's "researchers" omitted the obvious toxicology of pertussis. 

Jesse McKinley, of The New York Times, wrote, 6/23/2010:

"After the deaths of five infants, California health authorities declared an epidemic of whooping cough in the state on Wednesday, urging residents – particularly those of Latino background – to get vaccinated against the disease."

With regard to NY Times', "particularly those of Latino background", obviously, Latinos in California are often agricultural workers, i.e., those who are maximally exposed to pesticide spray programs.

Such literature, that advocates germ-theory and omits toxicology, is, at best, moot, since the character of the germ cannot be known in the absence of toxicology.  Obviously, the treatments, prescribing poisons (antibiotics) would be disastrous if pertussis is a toxicological disease.  That is, most pertussis deaths could be the result of antibiotics exacerbating a toxicological disease.

Wikipedia, an example of mainstream medical norms, avoids toxicology and advocates antibiotics (poisons) while claiming that bacteria are causative.  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertussis

Map:  California Counties

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Legal disclaimer:  This is for academic discussion.  It is not authoritative health advice.