With high rates of whooping cough in young babies, is the NHS doing enough to make maternal vaccination accessible? Emma Wilkinson reports So far in 2024 England has had 10000 laboratory confirmed cases of whooping cough (pertussis), and 10 infants have died from the infection.1 While a rise...
Pregnant women have been advised to get vaccinated against whooping cough after nine young babies died as cases of the illness surged in England. Whooping cough, which affects the lungs and breathing tubes and spreads very easily, according to the NHS, is responsibl...
Re: Whooping cough: Why have vaccination rates plummeted in pregnant women? With high rates of whooping cough in young babies, is the NHS doing enough to make maternal vaccination accessible? Emma Wilkinson reports So far in 2024 England has had 10000 laboratory confirmed cases of whooping cough...
NHS England to commission whooping cough vaccination service through community pharmaciesdoi:10.1211/PJ.2025.1.349027Sophie WillisPharmaceutical Journal