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In 2000, just 1 percent of the population of those countries received the pentavalent vaccine (covering diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis B, and hib); by 2016, that number was 76 percent.
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This is extra important because pertussis, commonly called whooping cough, is seeing a resurgence nationwide.
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Other adult vaccine coverage rates are low as well: 45 percent for the flu vaccine and 23 percent each for pneumococcal and tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis vaccines.
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The infectious disease, also known as pertussis, recurs every three to five years, and California's last outbreak was in 2014.
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The major emphasis in this vaccine is protecting the infant from pertussis, a respiratory infection that can make breathing difficult or cause violent coughing.
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In Philadelphia, 91 percent of the adolescents covered by the insurer in 2016 got the meningococcal vaccine and 92 percent got the Tdap vaccine for tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis.
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Besides measles, vaccinations required by Oregon schools include diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), mumps, rubella, hepatitis A and B, polio and varicella (chickenpox).
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The illness, also known as pertussis, is a contagious respiratory infection that causes airways to swell, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
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Origin and Etymology of pertussis
New Latin, from Latin per- thoroughly + tussis cough
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First Known Use: circa 1772
in the meaning defined above
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