UK - Warning to GPs after research uncovers true extent of whooping cough infection

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Vaccinations , " mum2mishka " <mum2mishka

wrote:

 

Can someone explain to me how a vaccine can result in a case of

*anything*

being less severe than it would have been without the vaccine? To me,

you

are either susceptible to pertussis, in which case you develop

pertussis, or

you aren't susceptible, in which case you don't develop pertussis. I

cannot

see how a vaccine can reduce the severity of an attack, but I'd be

pleased

for someone to explain it to me.

 

Sue

 

 

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article1164554.ece

 

Warning to GPs after research uncovers true extent of whooping cough

infection

 

By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor

Published: 07 July 2006

 

The potentially fatal childhood illness of whooping cough is far more

widespread than official figures suggest, researchers warn.

 

A study of children with persistent coughs lasting more than 14 days in

Oxford found almost four out of 10 had recently been infected with the

bacterium, Bordetella pertussis, which causes whooping cough.

 

More than 85 per cent had been immunised but had still caught the

infection.

Researchers said the vaccine - given to infants at two, three and four

months as part of the childhood vaccination programme - lessened the

severity of the illness, and was important for that reason, but did not

always prevent infection.

 

The biggest risk was to younger siblings of school-age children who were

too

young to be vaccinated. Half of infants under one who catch whooping

cough

are admitted to hospital. GPs fail to diagnose the infection in older

children because it is perceived to be a disease of very young children

who

have the classic whoop.

 

Around 500 cases of the infection are notified to the Health Protection

Agency in England and Wales each year but the researchers estimate that

the

true figure is " at least 10 times and maybe many more times higher, "

Richard

Mayon-White, consultant epidemiologist at the University of Oxford and

an

author of the study, said. The study suggested the condition was

" endemic

among younger school-age children " .

 

The infection, known as the " 100-day cough " , starts like an ordinary

cold

but develops into paroxysms of coughing, sometimes ending with a " whoop "

and

often accompanied by vomiting. The worst affected children require

hospital

treatment and can suffer brain damage or death.

 

Before vaccination was introduced in the 1960s, there were annual

epidemics

of between 60,000 and 160,000 cases. A scare about the safety of the

vaccine

in the 1970s saw vaccination rates collapse. In the 1970s and 1980s

there

were 200,000 cases of whooping cough and 100 deaths, a death rate of one

in

2,000, according to the Health Protection Agency. Vaccination rates

against

whooping cough have since recovered and have remained at 94 per cent for

the

past decade.

 

In 2001, a fourth pre-school booster vaccination, given between the ages

of

three and five, was introduced because of concerns about the persistence

of

the infection in the community. The vaccine was also changed from a

whole

cell to an acellular version, which has fewer side-effects and can be

manufactured to a higher standard.

 

Writing in the online edition of the British Medical Journal, the

researchers urge GPs to be alert to the possibility of whooping cough in

any

child with a persistent cough lasting longer than two weeks.

 

" [Our] finding is important because secondary attack rates of pertussis

in

non-immunised household contacts have been estimated to be 90 per cent.

Younger children are more likely than adolescents to have a new-born

sibling

to whom they could transmit the infection.''

 

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