A MAP reveals whooping cough hotspots across England and Wales - after reports that five babies died from the highly contagious illness.UKHSA said last week that 2,793 cases of the bacterial lung infection - also known as pertussis - were spotted in England in the first three months of 2024. report for the week leading up to May 5 suggests infection rates are highest in the South West and South East.
Dr David Elliman, Consultant in Community Child Health at Great Ormond Street Hospital, said: "The rise in cases of whooping cough has inevitably resulted in a rise in deaths of those at greatest risk of getting the disease most severely - young babies." “The measures taken to control COVID-19 also suppressed many other diseases, whooping cough amongst them," he explained.A "small but steady decline" in whooping cough vaccination rates is also to blame, the child health expert added.Meanwhile, the number of two-year-olds who completed their six-in-one vaccinations as of September 2023 was 92.9 per cent, compared with 96.3 per cent in March 2014.is going through a period of turmoil and all services are under considerable pressure.
“While the vaccines against whooping cough are not 100 per cent protective, they reduce the chances of babies dying enormously.
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