News tagged with whooping cough
Human networking theory gives picture of infectious disease spread
(PhysOrg.com) -- It's colds and flu season, and as any parent knows, colds and flu spread like wildfire, especially through schools. New research using human-networking theory may give a clearer picture of ...
Dec 13, 2010 |
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Contact among age groups key to understanding whooping cough spread and control
Strategies for preventing the spread of whooping cough -- on the rise in the United States and several other countries in recent years -- should take into account how often people in different age groups interact, research ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 11, 2010 |
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From herd immunity and complacency to group panic: How vaccine scares unfold
Worries over vaccine risks can allow preventable contagious diseases, such as measles and whooping cough, to make a comeback. A new study, published in PLoS Computational Biology, shows how to predict ways in which popula ...
Apr 05, 2012 |
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Mortal chemical combat typifies the world of bacteria
Like all organisms, bacteria must compete for resources to survive, even if it means a fight to the death.
Nov 17, 2010 |
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Japan suspends two vaccines after infant deaths (Update)
Japan's health ministry has suspended two widely-used vaccines made by drugs giants Pfizer and Sanofi-Aventis as it investigates whether they are linked to the recent deaths of four infants.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 07, 2011 |
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Californians face whooping cough outbreak
Californians are rushing to get themselves inoculated against a whooping cough epidemic which has claimed the lives of several babies.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 18, 2010 |
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21,000 had whooping cough last year, CDC says
(AP) -- More than 21,000 people got whooping cough last year, many of them children and teens. That's the highest number since 2005 and among the worst years in more than half a century, U.S. health officials said Wednesday.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 23, 2011 |
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Calif. whooping cough: 9 dead, infections on rise (Update)
(AP) -- State health officials reported Thursday that California is on track to break a 55-year record for whooping cough infections in an epidemic that has already claimed the lives of nine infants.
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Sep 16, 2010 |
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Panel: Gramps, get whooping cough shot
(AP) -- A federal advisory panel is recommending that people 65 and older who are around infants get vaccinated against whooping cough.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 27, 2010 |
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Whooping cough vaccine is needed for adults to prevent illness in youngsters
For most people, the giggle of an infant is one of the purest, sweetest sounds the ear has ever heard.
Nov 05, 2010 |
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Giving babies Tylenol may blunt vaccines' effects
(AP) -- Giving babies Tylenol to prevent fever when they get childhood vaccinations may backfire and make the shots a little less effective, surprising new research suggests.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Whooping cough vaccine may be losing its punch: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- Vaccination programs against whooping cough may not be fully effective because the bacteria that cause the disease have evolved new strains, a new study has found. A team of Australian scientists has ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 10, 2010 |
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Whooping cough at epidemic levels in California
Whooping cough is now at epidemic levels in California and the state could record the highest number of illnesses and death due to the disease in 50 years, the state's top health official said Wednesday.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 24, 2010 |
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Small increases in vaccine cost can cause large gaps in protection
Public immunization efforts may be much more sensitive than previously realized to small changes in the perceived costs or risks of vaccination, scientists at Harvard University report this week. In some cases, the spread ...
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Jul 29, 2010 |
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Pertussis
Pertussis, also known as the whooping cough, is a highly contagious disease caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. It derived its name from the "whoop" sound made from the inspiration of air after a cough. A similar, milder disease is caused by B. parapertussis. Although many medical sources describe the whoop as "high-pitched", this is generally the case with infected babies and children only, not adults.
Despite generally high coverage with the DTP and DTaP vaccines, pertussis is one of the leading causes of vaccine-preventable deaths world-wide. Ninety percent of all cases occur in the Third World. Canada is the only rich, industrial nation in which pertussis is still commonplace, though Australia saw a large increase in cases during a 2008/09 outbreak.
For more information about Pertussis, read the full article at
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