In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran ...

Health chiefs say it is vital uptake is at least 95 per cent to prevent outbreaks of the highly infectious conditions, which ...

Childhood vaccination rates in Australia are among the worst for high-income countries, a new global study has shown.

This year, more than a third of whooping cough cases have been among people 11 to 19 years old. For this reason, the C.D.C. recommends that children get a booster shot at 11 or 12 years old.

A public health specialist has warned against cuts to the organisation that provides education, support and clinical advice ...

What you need to know about the whooping cough epidemic. Health New Zealand confirmed the infant who died over the Christmas period was the first death recorded since the epidemic was declared on 22 ...

Whooping cough is a highly contagious disease that can cause serious complications, especially for babies and those with weakened immune systems. The current outbreaks in New Zealand, Samoa and Tahiti ...

Health New Zealand data reveals 24-month old vaccination rates are down, whooping cough cases are up, and screening coverage for cervical and breast cancer has improved.

However, the Ministry has increased monitoring, especially at the border, in response to recent outbreaks in New Zealand and Samoa. In NZ, the total number of whooping cough cases for 2024 has ...

Around 50% of infants who catch whooping cough before the age of 12 months need hospitalisation and one or two-in-100 of those hospitalised die from ... A national epidemic was declared on November 22 ...

Analysis: A whooping cough epidemic was declared in Aotearoa New Zealand on November 22 – only the fourth time since the disease was made notifiable in 1996 – based on reported cases (263) being ...