SAN DIEGO - California officials are battling the worst whoppingcough epidemic to hit the state...Watson, Julie
Whooping cough (WC), or Pertussis, is a vaccine-preventable and highly contagious infectious disease. Although it has a relatively low fatality rate, approximately 13% of reported cases develop secondary bacterial pneumonia. This was because of several recurrent epidemics across Europe in the last ...
The infection is cyclical and peaks every three to five years. In 2010, a whooping cough epidemic killed 10 infants in the state. Infants are most susceptible to the disease, so parents are encouraged to vaccinate their children as soon as possible. This year, two infant deaths have been re...
It is called whooping cough because of the whooping sound that children make as they struggle to breathe. And it can be deadly, particularly in very young infants and older adults. Fortunately, there is a safe, effective vaccine. For several years, whooping cough has been relatively rare. Dur...
The 2012 pertussis epidemic in Washington state affected a surprising number of adolescents who were vaccinated on schedule, researchers reported. Compared with over 1,200 controls, 450 adolescent cases of pertussis showed similar rates of having received five rounds of their vaccinations on the recomme...
Whooping cough: what proportion of cases is notified in an epidemic? Presents the reassurance of the accuracy of the notification rates of whooping cough in Great Britain. Comparison of the notification rates over the years;... Jenkinson,Douglas - 《British Medical Journal》 被引量: 56发表: 198...
被引量: 0发表: 2024年 Identification and Characterization of the Carbohydrate Ligands Recognized by Pertussis Toxin through Glycan Microarray and Surface Plasmon Resonance Vaccination has greatly reduced whooping cough (pertussis) morbidity and mortality; alarmingly however, the number of cases has been in...
(HealthDay)—A new analysis of the whooping cough epidemic in California finds that infants have been hit the hardest, and it calls for increased efforts to vaccinate pregnant women so their babies are protected. In what state health officials are calling the worst outbreak in 70 years, 9,935...
摘要: The conventional diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and polio vaccines offered to pre-school children in Britain are reviewed and some new developments and important differences between British and foreign experience are discussed. Another epidemic of pertussis can be expected to start in late 1985....
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