Mothers-to-be urged to have vaccine

A free whooping cough vaccine is now available to all pregnant in the Bay of Plenty women to help protect their newborn babies from the serious disease.

Mothers-to be are being urged to get a free whooping cough vaccine.

The ongoing whooping cough outbreak has resulted in Toi Te Ora – Public Health Service being notified of 21 people with whooping cough in the Bay of Plenty and Lakes districts this year, on top of the 283 in 2012 – with 16 people requiring hospitalisation.

Of these 283 people, 25 were babies aged one year and under, and 34 were young children aged from one to four years old.

Babies under one year old who get whooping cough are most at risk of serious complications and more likely to need hospitalisation, says doctor Neil de Wet.

'Whooping cough can be a very serious disease for young babies,” says Neil.

'During this ongoing outbreak of whooping cough, I strongly recommend that pregnant women get immunised to help protect their newborn baby from whooping cough.

'Having a whooping cough booster during pregnancy reduces the risk of mums developing whooping cough and passing the infection on. In addition, mothers will pass on some immunity to their baby.

'When pregnant women get vaccinated, not only are they helping to protect their own health, they're helping to protect their baby too.”

Immunisations given on time, every time is the best way to provide ongoing protection for babies through childhood, says Neil.

Whooping cough immunisations should be given when a baby is six weeks, three months and five months old, with boosters given to children at four and 11 years old.

From January 1, 2013 and until the outbreak finishes, all pregnant women can get a free whooping cough vaccine between 28 and 38 weeks of pregnancy from their GP.

Other adults caring for infants should consider having a whooping cough booster too.

For more information visit www.ttophs.govt.nz/whooping_cough

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2 comments

Eugenics

Posted on 28-01-2013 18:57 | By jameshawthorne

Kiwis need to understand these people that run Big Pharma and the medical "industry" are eugenicists. They have killed hundreds of young women around the World with their Gardasil 'vaccine' and Bill Gates has paralyzed over 47,000 children in India with this polio "vaccine" - Bill Gates' father was also a top eugenicist - they hail from the Nazis, where their first medical experiments used to take place - for population control. Do not let these Nazi scientists put anything in your arm!!! For your health's sake!


Beware of toxic vaccines

Posted on 28-01-2013 23:13 | By the kurgan

"PARENTS across Australia will no longer receive free whooping cough vaccinations because it is not effective in protecting newborns from the potentially deadly illness, a parliamentary committee has heard." full story here: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/states-ending-free-parent-whooping-vaccine/story-e6frfku0-1226350174856 also read: http://www.naturalnews.com/037753_cdc_pregnant_women_vaccines.html


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