Whooping cough booster not enough to stop outbreaks

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Whooping cough booster not enough to stop outbreaks

By Anne Harding NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Giving adolescents and adults a booster shot of the whooping cough vaccine offers some protection against the infection - but not enough to prevent outbreaks, according to a new study. "The take-home message is, we need a new vaccine," lead author Dr. Roger Baxter, co-director of the Vaccine Study Center at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, California, told Reuters Health. The booster, known as Tdap, protects against tetanus and diphtheria as well as whooping cough, also called pertussis. ...

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