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Tips and Prevention Steps for Whooping cough
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Tags: whooping cough, pertussis, bacterium, Bordetella pertussis, erythromycin, azithromycin, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, clarithromycin, tips, prevention
The best way to prevent whooping cough is with the pertussis vaccine.
| | The best way to prevent whooping cough is with the pertussis vaccine, which doctors often give in combination with vaccines against two other serious diseases, diphtheria and tetanus. This three-in-one combination is known as the DTaP vaccine. It's a newer and safer version of the DTP vaccine. |
| | It takes at least three shots of the pertussis vaccine to fully protect a child against whooping cough, but a total of five shots are recommended by age 6. |
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