Vaccination against whooping cough - money down the drain

Adults are not the distributors of pertussis, as established researchers. Consequently, widely propagated by vaccination of adolescents and adults - a waste of time and money.

To a large extent it is the children spread whooping cough   in their environment, so that the vast adult pertussis vaccination and adolescents from the disease is absolutely not necessary as the researchers from the University of Michigan, led by Professor Pedzhmanom Rohani. Their study was published in the prestigious scientific journal Science.

It is popular in the United States rejects the view that the infected adult pertussis   have caused outbreaks of the disease in California and elsewhere. As is known,   whooping cough   caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. Last month, the Medical Council has recommended to the US authorities to conduct an all-out vaccination   people older than 65 years against tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough to protect children younger than a year, which is due to such a young age can not be vaccinated yet.

But Professor Rohani says he does not adults are the main carriers of bacteria pertussis . This disease is spread almost exclusively by children. Every year boleznporazhaet 30-50 million people, killing 300 of 000 victims of the disease in the majority of cases are children from developing countries.

But even in developed countries, too, when the flash, like the one that affected more than 6 400 people in California, killing at least 10 children. Vaccination against pertussis   in the United States was halted in 1978 and was not carried out in 17 years because of concerns about the impact of vaccines on children's health.

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