Acellular pertussis (whooping cough) vaccines have been developed because they are supposed to be safer and more efficient than the earlier, whole-cell versions.
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Last autumn, while we were all busy worrying about whether baby Leo got his MMR jab, the British government sneaked another vaccine into the preschooler booster schedule. Not just any old vaccine, but the most dangerous one of all.
A link between autism and the DPT (diptheria, pertussis, tetanus) has been suggested by an American doctor who tried to treat a boy of four. ...
A Finnish study found that in a population with a 98 per cent immunisation rate, whooping cough infections remain common. ...
British parents suspecting that their children have been damaged from the whooping cough vaccine can take heart from a recent Irish Supreme Court ruling that a toxic batch of pertussis vaccine cau ...
Yet another side effect has been linked to the diptheria, pertussis, tetanus (DPT) vaccine for children. Researchers are concerned that children can develop chronic brain dysfunction or even die i ...
The pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine may not prevent transmission of the disease and infants aged 0-2 months are most at risk. ...
A small study from Italy has found that immunity to whooping cough is short lived after either vaccination or natural disease. ...
The pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine in the DPT shot is failing to ...