Return of the Whoop!
For this week's discussion, we talk about the resurgence of Whooping Cough. This week we will examine a case study that outlines the history of pertussis or whooping cough. In the 1930s Pearl Kendrick and Grace Eldering developed a vaccine that by the 1960s reduced the rate of incidence to 5% of what it was in 1934. But the disease was not eradicated, and by 2013 the number of cases was...
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