In 2012, Washington state had an outbreak of pertussis (whooping cough). Nearly 5,000 people mostly babies and children caught the disease. Surprisingly, many of the affected adolescents had been vaccinated on schedule, a new study finds. The recent analysis of that epidemic, published in Pediatrics, reports that the effectiveness of
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Although a very high percentage of children in the United States receive a vaccination protecting them against pertussis, cases of pertussis have been on the rise. And infants younger than six months who are
The conclusion of a new study published in JAMA Pediatrics should come as no surprise to anyone who has been reading our Dispatch
Teen vaccination rates are all over the board, according to the CDC. In order to assess vaccination rates,