Whooping cough 3yr risk
September 21, 2011
WHOOPING cough vaccine may
not be effective after three years,
leaving older children susceptible
to the condition, a preliminary US
study has found.
Undertaken in the wake of a
massive outbreak of whooping
cough in California, scientists from
the Kaiser Permanente San Rafael
Medical Centre, looked at the
medical records of 15,000 children
and found a sharp spike in
whooping cough cases in those
aged between 8-12.
“I was disturbed to find maybe
we had a little more confidence in
the vaccine than it might deserve,”
said study head Dr. David Witt,
chief of infectious disease at the
Kaiser Permanente Medical Center
in San Rafael.
Witt’s findings included the fact
that children were around 20 times
more likely to contract the bacterial
disease three or more years after
their last original whooping cough
vaccine injection, compared to kids
who had received a booster shot
during that period.
Interestingly more than 80% of
children looked at in the study had
been vaccinated, with only 20%
having received no form of
whooping cough vaccination at all.
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