APP - new whooping cough vaccine not as effective as previous vaccine

[Don Quixote]

it looks like back to the research lab to develop another vaccine

NEW YORK (AP) — As the U.S. wrestles with its biggest whooping cough outbreak in decades, researchers appear to have zeroed in on the main cause: The safer vaccine that was introduced in the 1990s loses effectiveness much faster than previously thought.
A study published in Wednesday's New England Journal of Medicine found that the protective effect weakens dramatically soon after a youngster gets the last of the five recommended shots around age 6.
The protection rate falls from about 95 percent to 71 percent within five years, said researchers at the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Research Center in Oakland, Calif.
The U.S. has had more than 26,000 whooping cough cases so far this year, including more than 10,000 in children ages 7 to 10.
"The substantial majority of the cases are explained by this waning immunity," said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious-disease specialist at Vanderbilt University.

http://news.yahoo.com/whooping-cough-vaccine-loses-punch-too-fast-211116868.html

 

[christiefan915]

So much for new and improved.

 

[Don Quixote]

So much for new and improved.

the old vaccine was a lot more effective, but had more side effects

however, fewer children were killed by whooping cough when it was used, but some of the side effects included brain injuries

 

[christiefan915]

A few years ago my friend's son was diagnosed with whooping cough and I was shocked. It was like he had smallpox. My kids all had the old DTP shots but when it came time for boosters they got Tetramune.

 

[Don Quixote]

A few years ago my friend's son was diagnosed with whooping cough and I was shocked. It was like he had smallpox. My kids all had the old DTP shots but when it came time for boosters they got Tetramune.

my wife and i received small pox vaccinations when we were young

now no children get them, it is supposedly wiped out...

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

my wife and i received small pox vaccinations when we were young

now no children get them, it is supposedly wiped out...

Smallpox was indeed eradicated. It's the only disease we've ever totally eradicated through vaccination, though. I suppose the vaccine was particularly effective, it doesn't mutate quickly into something unrecognizable (unlike the flu and HIV), and it also helps that it only effects humans, and so didn't have a reservoir of animal hosts to recede to when human vaccination became widespread.

 

[Don Quixote]

Smallpox was indeed eradicated. It's the only disease we've ever totally eradicated through vaccination, though. I suppose the vaccine was particularly effective, it doesn't mutate quickly into something unrecognizable (unlike the flu and HIV), and it also helps that it only effects humans, and so didn't have a reservoir of animal hosts to recede to when human vaccination became widespread.

except for the weaponized version...

 

[Minister of Truth]

Just as well I haven't received my mandatory TDaP shot yet, then.