The conclusion of a new study published in JAMA Pediatrics should come
as no surprise to anyone who has been reading our Dispatch letter. When parents
fail to have their children vaccinated with the TDaP vaccine (tetanus,
diphtheria, pertussis, or “whooping cough”) they are putting their kids at risk
for preventable and possibly lethal infection. (The “a” means acellular—a newer
version of the pertussis vaccine).
The study
was designed to examine the association between underuse of this vaccine and
the incidence of pertussis in kids aged 3 to 36 months. And the results speak
for themselves.
Lead author Jason M. Glanz, PhD of the Department of Epidemiology,
Colorado School of Public Health, working with other public health experts from
eight managed care organizations between 2004 and 2010, reported some rather
startling findings. Read more.
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