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Whooping Cough Immunization Available to Older People at the Health Department

The Greendale Health Department offers the immunization to people 65 years or older now.

can now give popular immunization for whooping cough to folks 65 years of age and older as well as to some children 7 to 9 years of age.

It is always mixed with tetanus and diphtheria vaccine, given as a 3-in-one shot, and for people 7 and older this vaccine is called Tdap.

Whooping cough can be fatal to infants. Pertussis, most commonly known as the whooping cough, is a highly-contagious bacterial disease that causes severe and uncontrollable coughing fits, making it difficult to breathe. The upper respiratory infection is serious and, in extreme cases, can cause permanent disability or death, especially in infants. If the whooping cough goes untreated it can approximately last six weeks. Infants don’t develop a significant immunity to it until they’ve had their third set of baby shots and tend to be transmitted to them by older kids and adults.  

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People can mistakenly believe that they have bad cold with a lingering, persistent, wear-you-down cough since mainly only infants have the whoop symptom.

at in December. The cases were cleared.

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Summer is a common time for exposure to disease. Stop by the health department for a tetanus shot.

If you need a tetanus booster, want to protect an infant in your life or yourself get the Tdap shot call the Greendale Health Department at (414) 423-2110 for more information or to make an appointment. 


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