{"id":22729,"date":"2024-04-18T08:35:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T12:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22729"},"modified":"2024-04-18T08:35:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T12:35:10","slug":"adults-may-need-whooping-cough-booster-as-cases-rise-cdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22729","title":{"rendered":"Adults may need whooping cough booster as cases rise: CDC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Erica Carbajal for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent months, parts of the U.S. have reported outbreaks of pertussis, or whooping cough. While some regional outbreaks are expected each year, health officials are underscoring the importance of boosters in adults to protect infants from severe illness, NBC News reported April 17.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/public-health\/adults-may-need-whooping-cough-booster-as-cases-rise-cdc.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/public-health\/adults-may-need-whooping-cough-booster-as-cases-rise-cdc.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"27\" class=\"wp-image-9071\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CDC.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CDC.jpg 844w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CDC-300x40.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CDC-768x102.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CDC-800x112.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Erica Carbajal for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) In recent months, parts of the U.S. have reported outbreaks of pertussis, or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,44,15],"tags":[72,94,1266,1267,1265],"class_list":["post-22729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-cdc","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-cdc","tag-older-adults","tag-pertussis","tag-vaccine-boosters","tag-whooping-cough"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22730,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22729\/revisions\/22730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}