Letter: I was born in the 1930s, and thank God my parents believed in vaccinations

Letter: I was born in the 1930s, and thank God my parents believed in vaccinations

DETROIT LAKES — I heard just today that a child has died from whooping cough. This could have been prevented by the DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis) vaccine. I was born in the hard years of the mid-1930s. I am grateful to my parents who trusted science and vaccinated my sister and I when they became available and who felt some responsibility for vaccinating their children against diseases that could be avoided. My grandfather …