Pertussis – or whooping cough – cases are on the rise in some areas of the country. Infants and children who haven’t been immunized can get seriously ill if infected.
Washington state health officials are urging parents to use the next few weeks to make sure their children had all the immunizations they need to attend school.
Each year 50,000 Americans die from a vaccine-preventable infections, and almost all of them—95%—are adults.
Influenza, for example, causes an average of 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. every year, but less than half of the adults for whom the vaccine is recommended get the shot.
Pneunococcal infections, when can cause lung, blood stream and [...]
Washington state health officials are investigating an outbreak of whooping cough, also known as pertussis, among people who attended the state high school wrestling championships held last month in the Tacoma Dome.
So far, at least 15 people, including wrestlers, coaches and spectators, who attended the match—The 2009 Mat Classic—have come down with the infection.
“Anyone who [...]
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