My baby died from whooping cough just days after he was born before he could get the jab
WHOOPING cough might sound like a disease from the Victorian era, but the bacterial bug has made a dramatic comeback in recent months.In January and February alone, England recorded 1,468 cases, up 8,055 per cent from the 18 cases during the same period in 2023.
Older children and adults can also get whooping cough – as neither vaccination nor infection provides lifelong immunity – and it is highly infectious.in the UK, in the hope a mother’s antibodies would pass to her baby in the womb, giving protection from birth."During lockdown the number of infections went down, so people who may have caught it then are catching it now," Prof Helen Bedford, an expert in child public health at University College London, told the Sun.
That number dropped to around 58 per cent by 2023, according to the UK Health Security Agency The whooping cough vaccine is given alongside five others to babies at eight, 12 and 16 weeks and as part of a four-in-one booster to preschool children aged three years and four months.The number of two-year-olds who completed their six-in-one vaccinations as of September 2023 was 92.9 per cent, compared with 96.3 per cent in March 2014.
These vaccines were highly effective but had some adverse side effects, including fever and mild allergic reaction.
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