{"id":10837,"date":"2025-11-19T14:17:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10837"},"modified":"2025-11-19T14:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:17:09","slug":"whooping-cough-outbreaks-surge-fueled-by-waning-immunity-and-falling-vaccination-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/11\/19\/whooping-cough-outbreaks-surge-fueled-by-waning-immunity-and-falling-vaccination-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Whooping cough outbreaks surge, fueled by waning immunity and falling vaccination rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/whooping-cough-pertussis-cases-vaccination-rates\/\">CBS News<\/a> Rates of pertussis, also known as whooping cough,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/messages\/pandemic-center-tracking-report-12770578?e=87eb75ed9e\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"are surging, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">are surging<\/a>&nbsp;in Texas, Florida, California, Oregon, and other states and localities across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/whooping-cough-deaths-us-most-since-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"outbreaks, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">outbreaks<\/a>&nbsp;are fueled by falling vaccination rates, fading immunity, and delays in public health tracking systems, according to interviews with state and federal health officials. Babies too young to be fully vaccinated are most at risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Pertussis cases increase in a cyclical fashion driven by waning immunity, but the size of the outbreak and the potential for severe outcomes in children who cannot be vaccinated can be mitigated by high coverage and good communication to folks at risk,&#8221; said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, a former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&#8217;s immunization program, who resigned in August.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News Rates of pertussis, also known as whooping cough,&nbsp;are surging&nbsp;in Texas, Florida, California, Oregon, and other states and localities across the country. The&nbsp;outbreaks&nbsp;are fueled by falling vaccination rates, fading immunity, and delays in public health tracking systems, according to interviews with state and federal health officials. Babies too young to be fully vaccinated are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10838,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10837\/revisions\/10838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}