Whooping cough vaccine, infants: What you need to know HONOLULU (KHON2) — Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is contagious. This is particularly true for infants who are not old enough to be vaccinated . Before the introduction of diphtheria, tetanus toxoid. And the whole-cell pertussis [DTP] vaccine in 1948, hundreds of thousands of U.S. residents died from whooping cough . Get Hawaii’s latest morning news delivered to your inbox, sign up for News 2 You Once the vaccine became a standard inoculation for children, whooping cough cases plummeted. They did not disappear, but the impact of this disease became much less severe. But, over the last few years anti-vaccination sentiment spreading amongst many. Whooping cough is making a resurgence. , it is the children who pay for this. Now, the Centers for Disease Control has published a new study that provides greater. Information on the impact of the Tdap vaccination during pregnancy. The study shows that when mothers get this ...
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