Whooping cough is surging in Australia. In 2024, we’ve already recorded more than six times the cases we saw in all of 2023.
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There have been 2,793 confirmed cases of whooping cough so far this year – and, tragically, five infant deaths due to the infection.
Vaccination is our best tool to limit this whooping cough outbreak.
Antibiotics aren’t very effective against it, but we do have a vaccine.
One in three infants is not immunised against pertussis. For Māori babies, more than half are at risk from the potentially deadly infection. But there are relatively simple things we can do.
Whooping cough rates are the lowest they’ve been for years. But what comes next?
Whooping cough is making a comeback. Here’s how to identify it, and why vaccination is a way to protect babies.
Giving pregnant mothers the flu vaccine protected their babies from getting the flu in the first six months of life.
You may not know anyone with an infectious disease covered by the immunizations on the 2017 list of recommended vaccines. Here’s why that doesn’t matter, and why children still need to be protected.
Every year hundreds of thousands of children die from vaccine-preventable diseases. Africa leaders could change this if they improved vaccination efforts.
Australia is unique in using parental financial incentives for immunisation.
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Associate Professor, School of Public Health, Global Disease Epidemiology and Control, Johns Hopkins University
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Drake University
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Regional Adviser, Immunisation, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Stellenbosch University
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Professor, Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement, George Washington University
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KPS Research Fellow, Epidemiologist, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Research Fellow, General Practice, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor of Medicine, University of East Anglia
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Associate Professor, Discipline of Childhood and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney
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Deputy Director at the Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor Primary Health, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Reader and Senior Scientist at the Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, University of Southampton
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Lecturer and Chancellor's Research Fellow, School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Infectious Diseases Specialist and Clinical Professor, University of Tasmania
