A small study from Italy has found that immunity to whooping cough is short lived after either vaccination or natural disease. ...
The old chestnut about the path to hell being paved by good intentions keeps coming to mind whenever we think about modern medicine. ...
Whooping cough (pertussis) is becoming an adult disease. More than 12 per cent of American adults are affected yet just 3 per cent were likely to catch the disease before mass vaccination programm ...
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The pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine may not prevent transmission of the disease and infants aged 0-2 months are most at risk. ...
America's top health officials have delayed the introduction of the inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) even though they know that the live version is causing up to 10 cases of paralytic polio ev ...