"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 01:24:13 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > Charities keep going, even when their reason for being no longer
>> > exists.
>> > Here are three prime examples:
>> >
>> > When my parents were kids, there was
>> >
>> > Christmas Seals -- to fight tuberculosis
>> > The March of Dimes -- to fight polio
>> > Easter Seals -- to help crippled kids
>> >
>> > TB was cured, but Christmas Seals kept going, orienting its mission to
>> > general lung ailments.
>> > Polio was cured, but the March of Dimes kept going, changing its
>> > mission
>> > to have something to do with birth defects.
>> > Kids stopped getting crippled (same thing happened to the Shriners
>> > Hospitals) but Easter Seals kept going, changing its mission to have
>> > something to do with disabled children, especially autistic kids.
>>
>> Actually, TB is back. Perhaps not so much in this country but it is
>> here.
>
> TB never went away. What's back is all the childhood diseases,
> including whooping cough, thanks to stupid parents who don't vaccinate
> their children.
> http://www.cdc.gov/pertussis/images/...ph-2014-lg.jpg

The vaccine isn't very effective. Angela had it but was still sick for
about 2 months with the whooping cough. So was my mom.