The Department of Health reminds the public to get their children vaccinated as pertussis or whooping cough cases climbed in the first quarter of 2024.
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00:00 The Department of Health reminds the public to get their children vaccinated as pertussis
00:05 or whooping cough cases climbed in the first quarter of 2024.
00:10 Health Secretary Ted Herbosa reports 1,112 pertussis cases from January to March with
00:16 54 deaths.
00:18 Of these, some 70 percent were hospitalized.
00:20 Majority of the cases were younger than 5 years old.
00:23 Herbosa emphasizes that all 54 deaths were vaccine-preventable, saying many of the children
00:28 who were hospitalized had already been sick for days and should have been given antibiotics
00:33 by the time they had reached four to five days without getting better.
00:37 Quezon City is among the LGUs which declared a pertussis outbreak together with Iloilo
00:42 City and Cavite.
00:44 Children can be protected from pertussis by getting vaccinated with a 5-in-1 vaccine,
00:49 which protects against diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus, hepatitis B, and hemophilias
00:53 influenzae type B.
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