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BMC Medicine: Is the Whooping Cough Resurgence Due to Vaccinated People who don’t know they are infected?
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Newswise — Released: 23-Jun-2015 7:05 AM EDT Whooping cough has made an astonishing comeback, with 2012 seeing nearly 50,000 infections in the U.S. (the most since 1955), and a death rate in infants three times that of the rest of the population. The dramatic resurgence has puzzled public health officials, who have pointed to the waning effectiveness of the current vaccine and growing anti-vaccine sentiment as the most likely culprits.
Fellows Ben Althouse and Sam Scarpino point to a different, but related, source of the outbreak – vaccinated people who are infectious but who do not display the symptoms of whooping cough, suggesting that the number of people transmitting without symptoms may be many times greater than those transmitting with symptoms. Read study….
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Source: http://vaccineliberationarmy.com/2015/06/27/bmc-medicine-is-the-whooping-cough-resurgence-due-to-vaccinated-people-who-dont-know-they-are-infected/
