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TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Health officials successful the County of Tulare are encouraging parents and caregivers to vaccinate themselves amid an summation successful a "highly contagious bacterial disease."
The region announced Wednesday that they person been experiencing an summation successful whooping cough (pertussis) cases.
The bacterial illness is highly contagious and tin origin coughing attacks that tin past for months. The unwellness tin beryllium particularly terrible successful infants, starring to trouble breathing, turning blue, and adjacent death.
Because infants cannot person the DTap vaccination until they are 2 months old, the region is encouraging everyone betwixt 27 and 36 weeks large and household members oregon caregivers of infants to get the Tdap/DTaP vaccination.
When fixed during pregnancy, the region says Tdap is astir 90% effectual successful preventing babe hospitalizations owed to whooping cough. You tin larn much astir Tdap during gestation from the CDC here.
It is recommended that adults get a caller Tdap vaccination each 10 years. The Tdap vaccine is besides required for 7th-grade students successful California.
