Bordetella pertussis

Type: Keyphrase

Name: Bordetella pertussis

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Whooping cough incidence on the rise in Czech Republic

Prague, May 16 (CTK) - The incidence of whooping cough has been rising in the Czech Republic where 738 cases were registered in 2012, which is twice more than in 2011, and this is why experts recommend vaccination, epidemiologist Katerina Fabianova told ... [Published Prague Monitor - May 17 2013]

Entities: Pertussis, Czech Republic, Vaccine

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Irish Scientists’ Discovery Could Lead to Develop a new Whooping Cough Vaccine

A discovery by Irish scientists could reduce the chances of contacting whooping cough. The disease is highly contagious and caused by the bacteria Bordetella pertussis. The disease leads to uncontrollable and violent coughing, which makes it difficult ... [Published TopNews United States - May 13 2013]

Entities: Pertussis, Vaccine, adjuvant, Alum

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 2 reports

TCD Improves Whooping Cough Vaccine

Children are routinely vaccinated against whooping cough, a potentially fatal infection caused by the Bordetella pertussis bacteria. Unfortunately, the currently used vaccine while very safe, does not give strong, long-lasting immunity, says Kingston ... [Published HighBeam Research - May 07 2013]

Entities: Pertussis, Vaccine, Bordetella pertussis, Immunology, Kingston (Jamaica)

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Bill would offer whooping cough vaccine for infants

All hospitals in the state would be required to offer whooping cough vaccines to infants under a proposal that easily cleared the state House on Thursday.Currently, hospitals are required to provide parents of newborns educational information about the ... [Published The Advocate - May 03 2013]

Entities: Pertussis, Vaccine, Bordetella pertussis, Apnea, contagious disease

First reported Feb 07 2013 - Updated Feb 07 2013 - 1 reports

Pertactin-Negative Variants of Bordetella pertussis in the United States

To the Editor: Global vaccination of children has dramatically reduced the incidence of illness and deaths from Bordetella pertussis, the causative agent of whooping cough. However, increased numbers of cases of whooping cough have recently been reported ... [Published The New England Journal of Medicine: Pulmonary\ ... - Feb 07 2013]

Entities: Bordetella pertussis, Pertussis, United States

First reported Feb 06 2013 - Updated Feb 06 2013 - 1 reports

Mutations in Pertussis May Account for Rise in Cases

(MedPage Today) -- The rising incidence of whooping cough in the U.S. and elsewhere may be a result of new mutations in Bordetella pertussis that may diminish vaccine efficacy, researchers reported. ... [Published MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for ph ... - Feb 06 2013]

Entities: mutations, Pertussis, Bordetella pertussis, Vaccine

First reported Jan 04 2013 - Updated Jan 04 2013 - 1 reports

Scotland: Cases of whooping cough soar by more than 2000%

Thanks to Bordetella pertussis for tweeting the link to this story in Herald Scotland.com: Cases of whooping cough soar by more than 2000%. Excerpt:More than 2000 people have caught whooping cough in Scotland's worst outbreak for at least 25 years.The ... [Published H5N1 - Jan 04 2013]

Entities: Pertussis, Scotland, Bordetella pertussis, Immunity, Vaccine

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"Two cases are significant when you take into account the seriousness of this disease, the ease at which it spreads, and the fact that no cases have been confirmed in our county in three years" said Maureen Feaster, Indian River County Health Department nurse consultant and epidemiology supervisor

Health Department warns against Whooping Cough [Published Hometown News - 9 hours ago]

...of earlier generations… yes, some of the scarier side effects for the whole-cell vaccine probably had to do with its longer-lasting protection. "Probably some of that more severe reaction was because of its more brisk immune response" says David Witt, another Kaiser Permanente physician who has studied pertussis outbreaks in California

FYI: Are Unvaccinated Kids Really Causing The Whooping Cough Resurgence? [Published Popular Science - May 22 2013]

"You now have a population of kids who have only received the acellular vaccine, so they'll be most benefited by getting booster" Dr. Klein said

Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To [Published Daily Rx - May 20 2013]

"The best prevention is to vaccinate adults who are looking after children day-long - parents, grandmothers and grandfathers as well as health care personnel in maternity hospitals" Fabianova said

Whooping cough incidence on the rise in Czech Republic [Published Prague Monitor - May 17 2013]

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