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pertussis vaccine

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Also known as: whooping cough vaccine

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immunization use

In infectious disease: Pertussis vaccine
The number of cases of pertussis (whooping cough), a serious disease that is frequently fatal in infancy, can be dramatically reduced by the use of the pertussis vaccine. The pertussis immunizing agent is included in the DPT vaccine. Active immunity can be induced…
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vaccine-preventable diseases

In vaccine: Adverse reactions
…for example, numbers of children vaccinated against whooping cough dropped sufficiently low so as to enable outbreaks of disease that involved thousands of children and resulted in hundreds of deaths.
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