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New Study Shows Tdap Vaccination During Pregnancy Can Prevent Whooping Cough in Babies

Pregnant Woman
Source: cdc.gov

Less than half of pregnant women in the United States take advantage of vaccination

Atlanta, GA—(ENEWSPF)—September 28, 2017

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Authored by Center for Disease Control (CDC)

A new CDC studypublished today in Clinical Infectious Diseases reported that vaccination with whooping cough vaccine, Tdap, during the third trimester of pregnancy prevented more than three out of four (78 percent) cases of whooping cough (also known as pertussis) in babies younger than two months. However,…

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