Sentences with phrase «against whooping cough»

Better protection against whooping cough comes from vaccinating a mother during pregnancy, scientists say.

Babies usually get their first vaccine against whooping cough at 2 months of age.

One big reason is that even though they receive the diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis vaccine (DTaP), it isn't until they get the 3rd dose when they are six months old that they are protected against whooping cough as infants.

Between week 27 and week 36, your partner will get vaccinated against whooping cough (pertussis).

Even the breastfed babies who remain safe from most infections have no defense against whooping cough.

Most of these babies don't have protection against whooping cough because they are too young to get the shots.

Childhood Vaccines • In San Francisco's Bay Area schools at least 40 % of kids are not vaccinated, leaving them unprotected against whooping cough, measles and other preventable disease — part of a nationwide trend toward parents withholding vaccinations.

A new study from Kaiser Permanente's Vaccine Study Center found that the Tdap booster vaccine provides moderate protection against whooping cough during the first year after vaccination, but its effectiveness wanes to less than 9 percent after four years among teenagers who have received only a newer form of the whooping cough vaccine (acellular pertussis vaccine) as infants and children.

The maternal protection against whooping cough stuck around beyond 2 months, the researchers found.

The key ingredient in the existing vaccine against whooping cough, or pertussis, is an inactive form of pertussis toxin.

Certain vaccines are actually recommended during pregnancy: the Tdap vaccine (tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis), which helps protect against whooping cough, as well as the flu shot.

Because babies can not be vaccinated against whooping cough (also called pertussis) until they are two months old, it's important that you pass the antibodies to your baby before birth by getting the Tdap yourself.

ORLANDO, FLORIDA — A vaccine against whooping cough has lost its edge because new, slightly different strains of the bacterium have emerged, researchers say.

Vaccination is still the only way to protect against whooping cough, especially for the youngest babies who are most at risk of severe illness,» stressed Associate Professor Lan.

'' [Pertusis toxin] is really quite an amazing molecule, and it's been highly essential in the vaccine against whooping cough,» said Dene Littler, the research fellow who led the work.