Whooping cough notifications continue to fall : young unimmunised infants remain at highest risk.
Other disabling diseases, such as whooping cough, have been reduced in prevalence and severity.
Effect of vaccination on severity and dissemination of whooping cough.
Initially this was due largely to a fall in deaths from infective, parasitic and respiratory diseases, in particular, diphtheria, whooping cough, meningitis, poliomyelitis, measles, pneumonia and bronchitis.
Particular attention was paid to typhoid fever, smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough, diphtheria and croup, influenza, pulmonary tuberculosis, cancer and other malignancies, and puerperal septicaemia.
The recurrence of whooping cough : possible implications for assessment of vaccine efficacy.
Severity of notified whooping cough.
In the early 1950s, the number of whooping cough cases was roughly 157,000 a year, compared with 2,000 today.
