Vaccinations guarded children during last year's pertussis spike in Alaska

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Vaccinations guarded children during last year's pertussis spike in Alaska

Vaccinations successfully guarded children from pertussis, a respiratory disease also known as whooping cough, during last year’s spike in cases of the disease in Alaska, a new state report says. Unvaccinated children were more than 13 times as likely as vaccinated children to get the disease during the outbreak, according to a bulletin released by the Alaska Division of Public Health’s epidemiolo...