Next up at Greenwich Skeptics in the Pub: David Miles on “Whooping cough vaccines: A century of good science and bad” at 7:30 pm, 12/9/23, at Davy’s Wine Vaults, Greenwich. Free, open to all, no need to book. Https://sitp.online/Sitp/Greenwich #vaccines #whoopingcough #science

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/whooping-cough-still-spreading-as-southern-alberta-outbreak-grows-1.6904516 “The health authority said 75 per cent of the province's cases this year have been in children under the age of 10.
“Seven children, including six in the south zone and one in central #Alberta, have been #hospitalized.”
#WhoopingCough #Pertussis

@Pionir @cabd @jfparis

Yes, boosters for adults. Very much this!

Was vaccinated as a child, caught #WhoopingCough as an adult 40+. It took forever and I was misdiagnosed for the first 2 months ("you had bronchitis, now you have asthma"). A new doctor had the correct diagnosis. When I told the 1st doctor, they didn't believe me, because "you have no young kids, therefore it can't be whooping cough." Very exhausting coughs!

Be careful and check all childhood vaccinations for poss. #boosters.

@cabd isn't it part of the standard course?

#infectiousdisease #whoopingcough

Whether in Canada, Britain or wherever else, get your kids immunised. Whooping cough is awful. #InfectiousDisease #WhoopingCough https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/whooping-cough-outbreak-declared-in-southern-health-region-1.6456571

Earlier vaccinations and exposure to #WhoopingCough / #Pertussis help boost the immune response in older children who receive a booster #vaccine, research from IMI project PERISCOPE shows
➡️ http://bit.ly/3XjuDBX
#VaccinesWork #WorldImmunizationWeek #EIW2023

Whooping cough is a very serious disease in children. Get them vaccinated ASAP #alberta and #saskatchewan
#VaccinesWork #Vaccination #WhoopingCough #pertussis #canada
#Science #Medicine
Whooping cough outbreak grows in Alberta: ‘Any rise in cases is concerning’ https://globalnews.ca/news/9642316/alberta-whooping-cough-outbreak-grows/

New research article in The Lancet Microbe>

Optimising the timing of #WhoopingCough immunisation in mums (OpTIMUM) through investigating #pertussis vaccination in pregnancy: an open-label, equivalence, randomised controlled trial

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(22)00332-9/fulltext

#Bordetella

My son has missed school all this week due to having a nasty cough that won’t go away. Took him to the dr who said that it was allergies, and prescribed Claritin for him. 😑

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/485628/nz-could-be-at-start-of-whooping-cough-outbreak-public-health-expert-warns

#Pertussis #WhoopingCough

Vaccinating #Pregnant Women Reduces Infant Whooping Cough
The incidence of pertussis, whooping cough, in babies over 6 months of age was cut over 60% after pregnant women began to be consistently vaccinated with the triple vaccine, TDap. #pertussis #whoopingcough #infants #tdap
https://youtu.be/Bg2GncfZ_PU

Our January newsletter is out 🗞️
➡️ IMI project results on #diabetes (@HypoResolve@twitter.com), #WhoopingCough / #pertussis (PERISCOPE) & #Alzheimers (@IMI_AMYPAD@twitter.com @epad@twitter.com)
➡️ IHI Call Days for call 4
➡️ Find project partners via our event platform
Read it: http://bit.ly/3jeaxdM

#whoopingcough in southern #Alberta #canada and in some areas, only a third of 2-year-old kids have had the shots. How can we protect the #children of the anti-vaxxers? These kids are so helpless!

#WhoopingCough outbreak declared in parts of southern #Alberta. The #health authority says that by age two, children should have received four doses of the pertussis #vaccine — but in some of these areas, only a third of two-year-old kids have had the shots. | CBC News
#canada #vaccinessavelives

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/pertussis-whooping-cough-alberta-south-ahs-1.6728432

Dear Southern Alberta, get vaccinated. #VaccinesWork #Vaccination #WhoopingCough

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/pertussis-whooping-cough-alberta-south-ahs-1.6728432

Dear Alberta, get vaccinated. #VaccinesWork #Vaccination #WhoopingCough

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/pertussis-whooping-cough-alberta-south-ahs-1.6728432

How do #vaccines & #infection influence immunity against #WhoopingCough / #pertussis? IMI project PERISCOPE's paper in @NatureComms@twitter.com offers some clues: http://bit.ly/3XjuDBX

"It works by introducing an inactive version of the bacteria into the royal jelly fed to the queen..."

Which sounds like the old #polio vaccine-on-sugar-lump I had when i was a kid.

"...whose larvae then gain immunity."

Which then sounds like vertical movement of immunity in pregnancy to developing baby seen with #influenza or #pertussis (#whoopingcough) vaccines.

But anyway, excellent work all round, vaccines for bees! And I do like honey.

If a toot mentions *all* of #RSV, #Norovirus, #H1N1, #pneumonia, #strep, #flu A and B, #Covid, #conjunctivitis, #bronchitis, #commonCold, #croup, and #whoopingCough, then it's likely either from a school teacher or from a parent. Because they're getting it all right now. Get well soon!

And if #Covid #Flu & #RSV aren't enough you can add to your list - Happy Holidays...#WhoopingCough.

Add Whooping Cough to List of Diseases to Watch Out for This Holiday Season
https://nbcsandiego.com/news/local/add-whooping-cough-to-list-of-diseases-to-watch-out-for-this-holiday-season/3105768/

#MaskUp #wearamask #shopping

God this sucks so bad. #whoopingcough