Vaccines in shock failure: Whooping cough vaccine stops working very quickly, warn scientists

Vaccines in shock failure: Whooping cough vaccine stops working very quickly, warn scientists:

NaturalNews) Health experts are warning that new vaccines for whooping cough are needed quickly and that additional booster shots for children are likely to be required as well for the disease after a new study found that the effectiveness of the current vaccine fades sharply over a period of time.

Results of the study, published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine, explains, in part anyway, a resurgence of whooping cough, also known as pertussis, which has infected in excess of 26,000 people this year, marking the largest outbreak in more than five decades, reports said.

The current vaccine, which was introduced in the 1990s, fails to protect people as long as once believed. In fact, the study's authors note, the vaccine loses nearly half its effectiveness with each passing year.

But was it ever really "effective" in the first place? Mounting evidence suggests that pertussis vaccines have never really worked.