Understanding Pertussis and the Role of Immunization

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Reason for selection of the post
Hi, I am please to inform to inform you that I have selected your response for writing a reply.
The response is selected because it helped in understanding a detailed
pathophysiology of Pertussis and the role of immunization in the treatment of this respiratory
disease. According to the Australia Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) (2019) pertussis
is a nationally notifiable disease in Australia. There are 20,106 notifications of whooping
cough in Australia in 2016 of them one out of 33 were infants who are under 12 months of
age. Thus high level of outbreaks among the infants require effective immunization and this
post throws light on the role of immunization in treating whooping cough or pertussis.
Self-reflection
Since from childhood I have seen that majority of the people who are from the
minority class or the aboriginals or the Torres Strait Islander, are undergoing premature death
resulting out of whooping cough. The main affected population are new born children of the
aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders. The development of the whooping cough leads to
premature death among the new-born.
Selected article
Gabutti, G., Azzari, C., Bonanni, P., Prato, R., Tozzi, A. E., Zanetti, A., & Zuccotti, G.
(2015). Pertussis: current perspectives on epidemiology and prevention. Human
vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 11(1), 108-117. https://doi.org/10.4161/hv.34364