Whooping cough cases up 90%, 2012 in Argentina, remerging disease

Between January and April, there were 597 patients in the country. In 2011, there were reported 315. In Cordoba, there are 41 confirmed and 105 probable. They insist on the vaccination. Although there are vaccines to prevent it, whooping cough longer history in Argentina to become a reemerging disease, which today is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in childhood.

The main victims of this highly contagious acute respiratory infection caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis, are babies under 6 months, you usually get from their parents or teenage siblings, or even the health team. They do this before completing the vaccination that protects them against disease. Read Article