{"id":1343,"date":"2004-07-13T10:11:02","date_gmt":"2004-07-13T15:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2004-07-13T10:11:02","modified_gmt":"2004-07-13T15:11:02","slug":"a-childhood-kil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2004\/07\/a-childhood-kil\/","title":{"rendered":"A Childhood Killer Once Vanquished Is Returning"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a title=\"KidsGrowth.com -- Whooping Cough\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kidsgrowth.com\/resources\/articledetail.cfm?id=1720\">Whooping cough, a disease that killed as many as 10,000 people a year in the pre-vaccine era, is making a dangerous comeback, striking babies before they have had a chance to be fully vaccinated, researchers report today.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I will never forget the tiny little girl I saw in a pediatric ICU.  She was maybe two or three months old, and had a very serious case of pertussis.  She was on an oscillating ventilator, which shoots thousands of tiny puffs of air every minute in and out of the patient&#8217;s lungs, the better to keep the lungs inflated.  The oscillation jiggled her a little bit, so her head rested on a gel cushion to keep the friction from the sheets from chafing the back of her head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whooping cough, a disease that killed as many as 10,000 people a year in the pre-vaccine era, is making a dangerous comeback, striking babies before they have had a chance to be fully vaccinated, researchers report today. I will never forget the tiny little girl I saw in a pediatric ICU. She was maybe two&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2004\/07\/a-childhood-kil\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Childhood Killer Once Vanquished Is Returning<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthy-living","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}