The quest for a longer-lasting whooping cough vaccine

 The quest for a longer-lasting whooping cough vaccine 

Whooping cough wasn't really on Juliet Lautenbach's radar. During her pregnancy and her daughter's childhood, both had received free public vaccines against whooping cough along with

 all the other standard immunisations.   see more...

But five years after giving birth, Lautenbach was working in an open-plan office with a colleague who was coughing a lot. The coworker revealed that she had whooping cough, and Lautenbach realised that both her see more......

Daniela Hozbor, a bacterial vaccine researcher at the Institute of Biology and Molecular Biology at La Plata National University, Argentina (IBBM UNLP-CONICET), explains just how easily pertussis spreads: if there's one infected person in a room, within an hour roughly 90% of susceptible people there may contract the disease. That's why it's so important to prevent pertussis
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Third generation vaccines

New whooping cough vaccines are needed for several reasons. One is that the acellular vaccines, while still effective,hird generation vaccines

New whooping cough vaccines are needed for several reasons. One is that the acellular vaccines, while still effective, read more....