Infections of whooping cough continue to rise with more suspected cases in two weeks than all of last year - our map shows how Merseyside is coping
Infections of whooping cough continue to rise with more suspected cases in two weeks than all of last year - and our map shows how the outbreak has affected Merseyside.
So far this year, as of May 12, there have now been more than 11,000 suspected cases of whooping cough, which is around six times as many as there were all last year. As of March the end of March, 2,993 whooping cough infections have been confirmed by lab tests in England alone so far this year. By the end of March 2023, there had been just 30 lab-confirmed cases.
Vaccine uptake has also fallen in recent years - leaving many children unprotected from the infection. Pharmacist Navin Khosla, of NowPatient, said: “For many years, whooping cough has been known as an infection which mainly affects children who haven’t been vaccinated and although cases are still mostly amongst children, whooping cough can infect adults who have been vaccinated, but the protection from the vaccine has started to fade.
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