Development of a new whooping cough vaccine at the centre for applied microbiology and research is continuing.
They are respiratory diseases, tuberculosis in its various forms, measles and whooping cough.
The reports on whooping cough published last month suggest that pertussis vaccine can lead to neurological damage in only a small number of cases.
The committee has received 503 reports of adverse reactions to the vaccinations which include whooping cough vaccine, the greater proportion of which were minor.
Anybody who has seen a child with whooping cough or struck down with measles knows how sensible it is for children to be immunised.
Most strikingly, that concern welled up during the 1970s in connection with whooping cough vaccine.
During the period 1957–61, there were 200 deaths from whooping cough in this country; by 1982–86, the number had fallen to 29.
In the early 1950s, the number of whooping cough cases was roughly 157,000 a year, compared with 2,000 today.
