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Literature update ViVa week 29-2026

1. Old epilepsy drug repurposed as a low-cost metabolic vaccine booster increases T-cell responses 10-fold in a human trial Summary: A multiomic screen matched T-cell memory transcriptional signatures against more than...

23 July, 2026

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Human pertussis challenge study identifies plausible correlates of protection—but only in a whole-cell-primed generation

Summary Two Lancet Microbe papers together present and contextualize a controlled human infection model for Bordetella pertussis in healthy adults. The primary study showed that outpatient intranasal challenge with CFU...

22 July, 2026

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Selected vaccine myths versus evidence

Download Infographic Overview Whole-cell Pertussis & Brain Damage: No causal link exists; earlier associations were actually coincidental onsets of inherited conditions like Dravet syndrome. Measles/MMR &...

9 March, 2026

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Case definition for pertussis misses cases

Background Pertussis (whooping cough) is a vaccine-preventable respiratory infection, yet global resurgences persist despite routine infant immunization. Ongoing challenges include incomplete protection, waning...

15 October, 2025

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Global Health Cast Edition 47

Forty-seventh Edition of the Global Health Cast presented by Prof. Schmitt and Dr. Sanicas. Download the PDF here 🔒 Premium Content - For FreeUnlock this content by becoming a Global Health Press subscriber. Join for...

30 August, 2023

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Pertussis outbreak in indigenous population in Colombia

A Bordetella pertussis outbreak has been reported by the National Institute of Health (INS) of Colombia in the Kogui community, an indigenous group living in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains in Northern...

23 March, 2022

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Why you need a whooping cough vaccine

How to protect yourself and those around you—especially infants—from this highly contagious disease Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, was close to eradication in the 1970s, thanks to the whooping cough vaccine...

10 November, 2016

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Standard pertussis vaccine immunity wanes substantially over time

The current vaccine for pertussis, or whooping cough, is highly effective at protecting people from the disease during the first three years after vaccination, but immunity wanes significantly over the subsequent four...

27 September, 2016

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Pertussis vaccination in pregnancy is safe, study finds

Tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccine is recommended for all pregnant women in the U.S. as the key medical intervention to protect newborn infants from pertussis (whooping cough). However, the safety of...

12 May, 2016

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‘Cocooning’ reduces whooping cough risk in infants

Vaccinating parents of newborn infants against pertussis provides moderate protection against the infectious disease in young infants, a study has shown. This targeted vaccination strategy, called cocooning, has been...

17 September, 2014

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