Type-specific Immunity Against Whooping-cough

Immunization against whooping-cough.

frequently be avoided if the subjects show the fixity of purpose described here; their determination to minimise the wind-chill factor (by digging a substantial snow cave) and to overcome the urge to sleep undoubtedly prevented a serious outcome for this party, which carried no specific equipment to spend a night out near the summit of Everest. CHARLES CLARKE Medical Officer, British Everest Ex...

Immunisation against Whooping Cough

lives and visits are often infrequent. To this extent, therefore, I see the community hospital in populations in excess of 40 000 being of primary significance to the community in respect of acute diagnostic and surgical services at an appropriate level, and the geriatric and long-stay element as a part of the overall picture rather than the predominant feature. In populations less than this fi...

A Specific for Whooping Cough

Failure to vaccinate against whooping cough.

We describe a prospective study in which we investigated why children fail to get vaccinated against whooping cough, including an assessment of the attitudes of parents and professionals and the impact of different views of the contraindications. There was considerable disagreement among the professionals on the interpretation of the contraindications to immunisation, and the commonest reason f...

Whooping-Cough *

Following the isolation of the pertussis bacillus by Bordet and Gengou' in 1906, anticipation of methods of control of whoopingcough was inevitable. This discovery gave impetus to experimental and clinical investigations on various aspects of the whooping-cough problem. The isolation of the apparent causative agent, the introduction of new bacteriologic aids in early diagnosis, the transmission...