Did Poor Vaccine Response Contribute to California’s Whooping Cough Outbreak?
September 20, 2011
Breaking news from the 51st ICAAC meeting in Chicago: Physicians from the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Rafael, California say they have found an unexpected amount of pertussis — whooping cough — in pre-teen children who had received their mandatory school-entry vaccination booster at age 5 and should have been protected from the disease until about the time of their final childhood booster dose at age 12. (Wired)
