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- Title
Use of Mass Tdap Vaccination to Control an Outbreak of Pertussis in a High School -- Cook County, Illinois, September 2006-January 2007.
- Authors
Counard, D.; Nimke, D.; Cohn, A.; Vernon, M.
- Abstract
The article discusses the use of tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid, and acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccination to control a pertussis outbreak in a high school in Cook County, Illinois between September 2006 and January 2007. During the period, 36 pertussis cases directly linked to the high school were identified. At the time of the outbreak, the school had 4,154 students and 651 staff members on two campuses. The experience showed that school-based Tdap vaccination clinics can quickly achieve high coverage during a pertussis outbreak.
- Subjects
COOK County (Ill.); ILLINOIS; TETANUS vaccines; DIPHTHERIA vaccines; WHOOPING cough vaccines; HEALTH of high school students; DISEASE outbreaks
- Publication
MMWR: Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, 2008, Vol 57, Issue 29, p796
- ISSN
0149-2195
- Publication type
Article