Today, the U.S. uses only the acellular pertussis vaccine.

Pertussis is a respiratory illness caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis.

Immunization against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis

So, even at birth you make excellent, excellent immune response to about 95 percent of infants will develop protected immune responses to the hepatitis B vaccine, the HlB vaccine, the DTAP or diphtherea, tetanus, acellular pertussis, polio, and pneumococcal vaccines by six months of age.

By 1996, the FDA approved a new whooping cough vaccine. It was called an acellular version.

Matthew's doctor suspected it could be whooping cough, also known as Pertussis.

Whooping cough, violent cough, the hundred day cough all names for Pertussis.

MOOl This new mutation had the effect that the bacteria started to produce more pertussis toxin.

After a pertussis infection you often get super infections, actually that is one of the main complications, pneumonia.

Pertussis is different, the original tet, pertussis or whopping cough vaccine was made by taking the bacteria, sorry, by taking the bacteria growing it up in, in, in a broth, in a nutrient broth and, and purifying the bacteria and killing the whole bacteria.

Iran states that it provided a range of vaccinations for diseases, such as tuberculosis, polio, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, measles and meningitis.

FARYON To understand why these two experts disagree, you need to know a little about the history of the pertussis vaccine.

And so, the, the tetanus vaccine was, was introduced in the 1940's, as was the pertussis or whopping cough vaccine.

In 1991, 80 per cent of the world apos s children were, for the first time ever, immunized against diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, measles, poliomyelitis and tuberculosis.

To date, almost 2,500 cases of measles and polio have been treated, and diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP) vaccinations for children under five have been conducted.

Immunization coverage for TB, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and poliomyelitis in the year 2000 in Bosnia and Herzegovina was quite high (95 per cent), but lower than in 1991 (98 per cent).

(a) Raising Africa apos s average immunization coverage from the level of 60 per cent achieved for the Universal Child Immunization effort to 80 per cent against diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, poliomyelitis and tuberculosis

Public Expenditures on Health as Percent of GDP gross domestic product Immunization Rates DPT3 diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus and measles Public Primary Education Spending as Percent of GDP Primary Education Completion Rate

But, because we don't use the smallpox vaccine anymore, and we don't use the, the wholesale or whole, whole bacterial, pertussis vaccine anymore. There are actually only between 150 to 153 immunological components in vaccines.

In 2003, the latest year for which figures are available, coverage for three doses of the combined diphtheria pertussis tetanus vaccine (DPT3) increased to 76 per cent in developing countries, from 73 per cent in 2001.

59. The latest immunization coverage figures indicated that 87 per cent of children under one year old are immunized against diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus and poliomyelitis, and that 65 per cent of them are immunized against measles.

The average per cent immunized against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2000 was 73.9 per cent, which is significantly lower than the 91.7 per cent immunized in the year 2001.

In 1980, with the wholesale pertussis vaccine, remember, that's a whole bacterial vaccine, and bacteria are much bigger than viruses. That contained, if you add up all the immunological components contained about 3 , a little more than 3,000 immunological components.

And you need to be, you need to get vaccines or all of you who don't, you're not going to be protected against certain infections like HlB and pertussis and pneumococcus, which start to peak at around six months of age.

There's been more than one time that I've been called on the phone by parents, who have children, to delay vaccines, only to find that their child suffered from pneumococcus or suffered from pertussis because they had made that choice.

However, only 30 per cent of children were exclusively breastfed, 79 per cent were immunized against tuberculosis, 68 per cent were immunized against diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus and 67 per cent were immunized against measles in 2003 in the least developed countries.

By 1980, using the theory of tetanus, whole cell pertussis vaccine, the polio vaccine and the measles, mumps, rubella combination vaccines, children could get as many as five shots by two years of age and as many as two shots at one time.

Now, now, at the time remember pertussis would kill about 8,000 children a year in the United States so it was a price that people were willing to pay untill we developed actually a better vaccine and, and that's the vaccine we currently use today.

And because parents were compelled by the coincidence, you know, my child was fine, they got this whole cell pertussis vaccine and, and now they have seizures or they have mental disabilities and the vaccine caused, even though now we know that wasn't true it's certainly the, the, the, the temporal association in the event that cause them to, to be compelled.

I guess if I, if I could have a wish, it would be that we would find the gene that enables us to determine when things randomly happen, and then sort of insert it into all of us because it would really help. In fact, you could argue that the, the, the notion that the whole cell pertussis vaccine caused permanent brain damage, something I talk about extensively in, in another talk, was really the birth of the modern American anti vaccine.