Can I just take this opportunity to ask everyone to go and get a booster for whooping cough?
I have just recovered from this shitty horrible disease and it's really knocked me for six. I had to have a month off work and I was ill for at least two months before that, trying to work through it before I knew that's what I had.
I have asthma so it was made worse by that.
vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/pertussis-whooping-cough
From the CDC - In the first year after getting vaccinated, whooping cough vaccines for adolescents and adults (called Tdap) protect about 7 out of 10 people who receive them. There is a decrease in effectiveness in each following year. About 3 or 4 out of 10 people are fully protected 4 years after getting Tdap.
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Whooping cough - not just a 1940s disease
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margerybruce · 23/02/2017 14:04
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