With nearly 18,000 cases so far, health officials say 2012 on the way to becoming worst whooping cough epidemic in five decades
WHOOPING COUGH OUTBREAK Whooping Cough Threat to Children; Spread of Infection at School Blamed on Low Vaccination Rates
Whooping cough is back with a vengeance with theworse outbreak in the United Statesin 50 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As of this month, 46 states have reported increases in cases compared with 2011. The state of Washington has declared an epidemic...
Risk Factors for Community- and Household-Acquired Pertussis During a Large-Scale Outbreak in Central Wisconsin Whooping CoughErythromycinRisk FactorsDisease OutbreaksAge FactorsAdolescentAdultMiddle AgedChildTo identify risk factors associated with community- and household-......
suggests a new study published inBMC Medicineby Santa Fe Institute Omidyar Fellows Ben Althouse and Sam Scarpino. Their research points to a different, but related, source of the outbreak—vaccinated people who are infectious but who do not display the symptoms ofwhooping cough, suggesting that ...
In 2012 the USA saw the highest number of pertussis (whooping cough) cases since 1955. New research finds that a likely explanation for this rise in disease is a drop in the degree of vaccine protection for each vaccinated individual.
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First described in the sixteenth century, whooping cough or pertussis is a relatively recent disease in human history, although some of the cough syndromes described in antiquity may in fact be pertussis-like diseases. Whooping cough caused by the gram-n
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RELATION BETWEEN VACCINATION AND NOTIFICATION RATES FOR WHOOPING COUGH IN ENGLAND AND WALES The number of notified cases of whooping cough in the 1977-79 outbreak in England and Wales was the largest for over 20 years. The percentage of children r... Pollard,Richard - 《Lancet》 被引量: 71...