Whooping cough after stopping pertussis immunisation.

Whooping cough after stopping pertussis immunisation.

An epidemic of whooping cough occurred in a rural practice in Shetland, containing 144 children under 16. Before July 1974 all children were immunised against pertussis, but after that date immunisation was stopped. Of the 134 children studied, 93 had been immunised. Sixty-five of the children developed whooping cough. The incidence of infection was similar in those who had and had not been imm...

Immunisation against Whooping Cough

lives and visits are often infrequent. To this extent, therefore, I see the community hospital in populations in excess of 40 000 being of primary significance to the community in respect of acute diagnostic and surgical services at an appropriate level, and the geriatric and long-stay element as a part of the overall picture rather than the predominant feature. In populations less than this fi...

The whooping-cough immunisation controversy.

Few subjects in child health have caused so much uncertainty and controversy in recent years as whooping-cough immunisation, its benefits and its dangers. A set of reports' from the Committee on the Safety of Medicines and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) give the best information so far on this difficult subject, and provide definite answers to at least some of the qu...

Severity of whooping cough in England before and after the decline in pertussis immunisation.

Since the decline of pertussis immunisation, hospital admission and death rates from whooping cough have fallen unexpectedly. Although this might be taken to indicate that the disease is becoming less severe, a comparison of admissions and deaths in England and Wales before and after the decline in immunisation suggests that several factors other than disease severity--a shift in the social cla...

What is pertussis (whooping cough)?