Do More Vaccinated or Unvaccinated Kids Get Pertussis?
Simple math helps show that more unvaccinated kids get sick, and they get more severe illness, during pertussis outbreaks.
Simple math helps show that more unvaccinated kids get sick, and they get more severe illness, during pertussis outbreaks.
What is the role of asymptomatic carriers in pertussis outbreaks?
Vaccines are not causing an increase in vaccine-resistant bacteria or viruses and can actually help us fight the growing problem of antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Pertactin-negative pertussis bacteria are not driving outbreaks of pertussis or whooping cough, and they have not become resistant to pertussis vaccines.