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  • Panel: All adults should get whooping cough shots

    02/22/2012 10:06:20 AM PST · by wtd · 17 replies
    AP ^ | Feb. 22, 2012 | MIKE STOBBE
    ATLANTA (AP) — A federal advisory panel wants all U.S. adults to get vaccinated against whooping cough. The panel voted Wednesday to expand its recommendation to include all those 65 and older who haven't gotten a whooping cough shot as an adult. Children have been vaccinated against whooping cough since the 1940s, but a vaccine for adolescents and adults was not licensed until 2005. Since then, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has gradually added groups of adults to its recommendations, including 2010 advice that it be given to elderly people who spend a lot of time around infants. Wednesday's...