Decades-long trends, rather than flawed vaccine, best explain resurgent whooping cough

A recent study released by the University of Michigan, with first author Matthieu Domenech de Cellès of the Institut Pasteur, shows that the resurgence in whooping cough can be explained not by recent changes in biology or epidemiology, but by several longterm factors, including natural population turnover, incomplete vaccination coverage, and slowly waning protection from a highly effective yet imperfect vaccine.

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