January, 2007: "Faith in Quick Test (PCR) Leads to Epidemic That Wasn't"

"Not a single case of whooping cough was confirmed with the definitive test, growing the bacterium, Bordetella pertussis, in the laboratory"

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Dr. Brooke Herndon of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, shown at left this month, (Jan. 2007)was told last spring that she appeared to have whooping cough.Credit...Jon Gilbert Fox for The New York Times

Below I have reprinted the entire NYT article about a mistaken epidemic spurred by unreliable PCR TESTS.

YES, BIG SMARTIES. IT WAS USED …