Pediatric Career and Resource Center

A new study is revealing that the resurgence of whooping cough in the United States is due to infant exposure from other children ages 5 to 20. These children often times do not know they are carrying the disease and unknowingly pass it along to infants they encounter. The group of adults with natural immunity to the disease has gotten smaller, also contributing to the resurgence. Health officials encourage all children to get the series of whooping cough shots to help protect infants, especially if they have infant siblings.

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