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NBA Legends Bob Lanier and Nick Anderson Join Vaccines For Teens Educational Campaign To Help Local Teens Take Their Best Shot at Health
-- ideally, during the routine 11- or 12-year-old check-up.Pertussis, Commonly Called "Whooping Cough" Pertussis is one of the most common respiratory diseases in American teens and adults. It causes a prolonged cough that can last weeks...
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Booster vaccine may be needed for whooping cough
Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is a contagious bacterial disease of the upper respiratory system that can lead to uncontrollable coughing and breathing difficulties and cause permanent disability and even death in infants.Jim...
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Whooping cough cases in Washtenaw County at record levels this season
It can manifest itself as a simple cough that won't go away.Or - as it happened to one Washtenaw County man this year - the whooping cough can lead to coughing so hard it makes a person pass out. Officials say cases of the respiratory...
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Whooping cough cases in Washtenaw County to record levels this season
It can manifest itself as a simple cough that won't go away.Or - as it happened to one Washtenaw County man this year - the whooping cough can lead to coughing so hard it makes a person pass out. Officials say cases of the respiratory...
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Whooping cough case diagnosed
_ Whooping cough case diagnosed.
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Ballarat Health Services' whooping cough warning
EMMA BROWN BALLARAT Health Services chief medical officer Dr John Gallichio is urging people to ensure they are vaccinated against whooping cough after several cases were reported in south-west Victoria.Nine people have caught the contagious disease in...
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Whooping Cough Strain Immune to Vaccine
The bacteria that causes whooping cough has mutated, and is no longer affected by the vaccine now given to children in Australia.Researchers have identified significant changes in the two most common strains of the bordetella pertussis bacteria, which...
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Whooping cough warning issued by Qld Health
Queensland Health is renewing its call for parents and carers of babies to be immunised against whooping cough with the illness still on the rise.About 6,000 cases were reported last year. More than 700 have been recorded since January this year.
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Whooping cough warning issued by Qld Health
Queensland Health is renewing its call for parents and carers of babies to be immunised against whooping cough with the illness still on the rise.About 6,000 cases were reported last year. More than 700 have been recorded since January this year.
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Whooping cough warning issued by Qld Health (ABC)
Queensland Health is renewing its call for parents and carers of babies to be immunised against whooping cough with the illness still on the rise.More than 700 have been recorded since January this year. Dr Jeanette Young says whooping cough...
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HEALTH: Vaccination urged after whooping cough onset
EMMA BROWN BALLARAT Health Services chief medical officer Dr John Gallichio is urging people to ensure they are vaccinated against whooping cough after several cases were reported in south-west Victoria.Nine people have caught the contagious disease in...
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Whooping cough cases continue to rise
The number of Whooping cough cases in the Kootenay-Boundary continues to rise.Officials with Interior Health say in the last couple of weeks 6 more cases have been diagnosed, bringing the total to 25. Currently only 69 percent of children in...
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Program Wages War on Whooping Cough
_ Program Wages War on Whooping Cough.
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Whooping cough cases confirmed
Dept.of Public Health warns of outbreak in Del Norte County Del Norte County is currently experiencing an outbreak of pertussis, or whooping cough, according to information released by the local Department of Public Health on Thursday. The first case...
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Whooping cough vaccine concerns
The bacteria that causes whooping cough in Australia has mutated, scientists have warned, eroding the protection provided by the vaccine now given to children.Researchers from the University of NSW (UNSW) have identified significant changes in the two...
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Whooping cough vaccines under spotlight
Current vaccines given against whooping cough in Australia may not be fully effective because of genetic mutations to the disease, according to new research.A team of Australian scientists has shown that two of the most common strains of the Bordetella...
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Whooping Cough Bacteria Has Mutated, Vaccines No Longer Effective
Dramatic increases in the incidence of whooping cough in Australia had been put down to an increase in non-vaxers.But new research indicates that it might not be non vaccinating parents who caused the spike, but the vaccination itself. Significant...
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Whooping cough vaccine concerns
The bacteria that causes whooping cough in Australia has mutated, scientists have warned, eroding the protection provided by the vaccine now given to children.Researchers from the University of NSW (UNSW) have identified significant changes in the two...
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Queensland schedules high school vaccinations
Mr Lucas says the clinics will start at the end of the month and be open to the public.(ABC TV News: file photo) The Queensland Government says free clinics for swine flu vaccinations will be set up at high schools throughout Queensland. Health Minister...
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Feb 10 ABC News report
Mr Lucas says the clinics will start at the end of the month and be open to the public.(ABC TV News: file photo) The Queensland Government says free clinics for swine flu vaccinations will be set up at high schools throughout Queensland. Health Minister...
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Whooping cough bacteria may evade vaccine
Listen to Thursday's program The World Today is a comprehensive current affairs program which backgrounds, analyses, interprets and encourages debate on events Whooping cough bacteria may evade vaccine.
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Whooping cough evolves vaccine resistance
WHOOPING cough is outgrowing the vaccine introduced a decade ago to prevent the potentially deadly disease, Australian researchers have found.The two most common strains of the disease have undergone "significant genetic changes" since then and...
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Whooping cough vaccine may be losing its punch: study
More information: -- Journal paper: http://www.cdc.gov/eid/content/16/2/297.Whooping cough vaccine may be losing its punch: study.
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