Bordetella Pertussis

Five thousand to ten thousand people died each year in the U.S. as a result of a strand of bacteria there was no vaccination for. This strand of bacteria was Bordetella pertussis. Now there are less then twenty fatalities are a year from Bordetella pertussis, whooping cough. Fifty percent of all Bordetella pertussis infections are found in children less than a year old. The older a person gets the less susceptible they are to …

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