Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Whooping cough shot cuts illness, maybe not spread

FILE -In this Thursday, May 3, 2012 file photo, Nurses Fatima Guillen, left, and Fran Wendt, right, give Kimberly Magdeleno, 4, a whooping cough booster shot, as she is held by her mother, Claudia Solorio, at a health clinic in Tacoma, Wash. A government study offers a new theory on why the whooping cough vaccine doesn't seem to prevent outbreaks that well. In research involving baboons, researchers found that while the vaccine may keep people from getting sick, it fails to prevent the germ from spreading, said one of the researchers, Tod Merkel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) ATLANTA (AP) — A government study offers a new theory on why the whooping cough vaccine doesn't seem to be working as well as expected.








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