Whooping cough (three doses) 94.6

Measles, measles, measles... whooping cough, measles, appendicitis

Diphtheria (combined with tetanus and whooping cough). 93.30

Usually it's the whooping cough when they throw up.

Tetanus, measles, polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, hepatitis B, yellow fever.

scarlet fever, and diphtheria, and measles, and whooping cough, and mumps.

Complete vaccination is deemed to include tuberculosis, diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus, and polio and measles.

Hence, there are frequent school medical examinations and successful immunization campaigns against smallpox, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus and poliomyelitis.

In addition, poliomyelitis has been eradicated since 1990 and diphtheria since 1991, while measles, whooping cough and tetanus have been brought under epidemiological control.

The country has achieved the eradication of poliomyelitis since 1990 and diphtheria since 1991, and has started the epidemiological control of measles, whooping cough and tetanus.

58. There is serious concern at the inadequate level of vaccination coverage, which has resulted in outbreaks such as the whooping cough outbreaks in several traditionally isolated areas of the country.

56. According to the administering Power, there has been a steady growth of vaccination programmes aiming at the target of having every infant protected against poliomyelitis, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, tuberculosis, mumps and rubella.

300. In 1979 this programme replaced the many vaccination campaigns which had been carried out for three months a year mainly against tuberculosis and poliomyelitis and to a lesser extent against diphtheria and whooping cough.

It targets the six most fatal childhood diseases (tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough and measles), as well as neonatal tetanus by means of the systematic anti tetanus vaccination of pregnant women and women of child bearing age.

Since 1997, there has been a positive trend a reduction in the incidence of whooping cough, but over the last two years, the number of cases has been on the rise, reaching a level of 6.8 patients per 100,000 residents in 2001.

For example, even as late as 1970, only around 5 of infants were vaccinated against measles, tetanus, whooping cough, diphtheria, and polio. By 2000, it was 85 , saving about three million lives annually more, each year, than world peace would have saved in the twentieth century.

As the number of people who have witnessed firsthand the effects of measles and other childhood diseases such as mumps, rubella, polio, and whooping cough has declined, so has society s commitment to keeping them away. Even after panicked claims that vaccines cause visible conditions like autism were proved to be nonsense, they remain more compelling than the threat of a disease that people have never seen or do not remember.