beSpacific<p>Not Just <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Measles</span></a>: <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/WhoopingCough" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhoopingCough</span></a> Cases Are <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Soaring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Soaring</span></a> as <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Vaccine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vaccine</span></a> Rates Decline. "While much of the country is focused on the spiraling measles outbreak concentrated in small, dusty towns of West <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a>, cases of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/pertussis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pertussis</span></a> have skyrocketed by more than 1,500% nationwide since hitting a recent low in 2021 amid the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COVID19</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/pandemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pandemic</span></a>. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Deaths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Deaths</span></a> tied to <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/disease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disease</span></a> are also up, hitting 10 last year, compared with about two to four in previous years. Cases are on track to exceed that total this year."</p>