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PERTUSSIS - AUSTRALIA: (SOUTH AUSTRALIA) **************************************** A ProMED-mail post ProMED-mail is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases Date: Thu 5 Nov 2009 Source: Adelaide Now...
There are two things I know very little about: medicine, cars, and the Law. (I am also not great at math.) So, like many people, I am sort of at the mercy of my doctor when I have medical decisions...
SOUTH Australia is experiencing its worst whooping cough outbreak on record - and babies are the main victims of the potentially fatal and highly infectious disease. SA Health has received almost 3500 notifications this year,...
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) says swine flu testing has led to a greater number of people being diagnosed with whooping cough. The Health Department has received nearly 3,500 reports of whooping cough in South...
By Nathan Seppa, Science News PHILADELPHIA - It’s enough to set Paul Offit to ranting, which he did this week at a meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Offit, a physician who heads the infectious disease...
then they should remain generally well-protected, because no one else is passing around the contagion. But the rise of anti-vaccination stupidity in America has caused some very preventable diseases -- like whooping cough -- to...
The shortage of swine-flu vaccine results not from drug- company greed or outsize demand but almost entirely from the government's decision to pander to unfounded and unscientific fear. As The Wall Street Journal reported last...
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. medical researchers suggest whooping cough -- pertussis -- immunity may last at least 30 years on average. The study, published in the journal PLoS Pathogens, used mathematical models to...
Many diseases lurk abroad. "When I recovered from malaria initially, all of my friends were very concerned," said Dickinson, minister of Olive Branch Ministries in Denver, which is developing an orphanage, medical clinic and...
DAPTACEL (diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis Vaccine Adsorbed) Suspension for Intramuscular Injection DAPTACEL vaccine is a sterile isotonic suspension of pertussis antigens and diphtheria and tetanus...
