Whooping Cough Vaccine Resistant Only 3 Years

whooping cough vaccination..From birth, babies need to gain some vaccines to boost immunity against certain types of bacteria and viruses. whopping cough One of them diphtheria pertussis and tetanus (DPT) are given five times at 2, 4, 6 and 18 months and at pre-school age (5-6 years).

The vaccine is intended for babies have resistance to the bacteria that causes whooping cough (pertussis).      whooping cough vaccine A recent study in the U.S. found that whooping cough vaccine will lose its effectiveness three years after the last vaccination.

Findings based on a survey of 15,000 children in Marin County, California, where the plague bacterium causes of cough killed 11 infants and infected more than 8,000 people in 2010.

"When I first began to experience an outbreak of pertussis, we assume is due to a population that is not vaccinated," said Dr. David Witt, of Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Rafael, as quoted from the pages of Yahoo.

But of identification, most of the children had been vaccinated, but there are exceptions in children aged 8-12 years.

In early studies were presented at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) at the American Society of Microbiology, experts found there was 171 whooping cough cases in all age groups, the largest occurred at the age of 8-12 years as many as 103 cases.

whopping cough...Children at this age have a risk 20 times higher than those experienced whooping cough newly vaccinated. However, the study emphasizes the vaccine in the early months of the first five years will give better protection to reduce the symptoms of infection.

     whooping cough vaccine..He suggested that parents keep an eye on when the child has whooping cough up to 10 weeks old. It can be fatal, especially in infants. Whooping cough is generally treated with antibiotics to reduce the symptoms and prevent the spread of disease.

Whooping cough infects 30-50 million people worldwide each year and kills about 300,000 people, according to the U.S. disease control center
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