Pregnant women were today urged to get vaccinated against whooping cough amid a worrying surge in cases that has already killed five babies.
As a few as a quarter of expectant mothers have had the pertussis jab – offered between 16 and 32 weeks — in parts of London.
Similarly low levels are seen in other parts of the capital and Birmingham.
Experts today warned the outbreak could be the biggest ‘of the last 40 years’.
Almost 3,000 cases have
Parents are struggling to find out whether their child’s polio vaccinations are up to date, it emerged today amid fears the eradicated disease is spreading in Britain again.
Health bosses issued a national alert after the paralysis-causing virus was detected in sewage samples in London, meaning it may be circulating domestically for the first time in almost 40 years. A call went out to British parents to check their youngsters’ innoculation records were up to date.
But some parents said
Karen Ocwieja delivered her twin sons last June, just weeks before Delta broke across the American Northeast. For months, she and her husband sheltered the boys, who’d been born premature, limiting their exposures to friends, family, and other kids, hoping to guard them from COVID’s worst. But all four of them still ended up catching the virus this January—the boys’ first bona fide illness. Then, in May, the twins tested positive again. Born with Ocwieja’s antibodies from pregnancy and
Here is our unmissable guide to some of the best packages (with flights and hotels included). All holidays are for dates after September, from Australia’s Kangaroo Island to the volcanic peaks of Rotorua in New Zealand.
WHERE TO GO IN OZ…
ROCK AND REEF
Visit Uluru (pictured), the iconic sandstone monolith rock, on a fortnight-long tour of Australia with Trailfinders
Take a hair-raising walk along the top of Sydney Harbour Bridge (nicknamed The Coathanger) and enjoy the waves at Bondi
For nearly a year now, the phrase fully vaccinated has carried a cachet that it never did before. Being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 is a ticket for a slate of liberties—a pass to travel without testing and skip post-exposure quarantine, per the CDC, and in many parts of the country, a license to enter restaurants, gyms, and bars. For many employees, full vaccination is now a requirement to work; for many individuals, it’s a must for any socialization at all.
Health service bosses last night ditched self-isolation requirements for medical staff who live with Covid-positive cases amid fears the rapid spread of Omicron would deplete hospitals and force them to cancel thousands more routine operations.
Doctors and nurses were required to stay away from wards for ten days if someone they lived with tested positive for the virus, regardless of whether or not they were fully vaccinated.
It was different to the rules issued at the same time for the
Dr Anthony Fauci, the U.S.’s top infectious disease expert, said Wednesday that the definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ in America will eventually change to require a booster dose as well.
The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) said that the change is unlikely to happen in the next week, but he expects it to happen at some point in the future.
He also said the health officials are already investigating the potential need for a fourth
For most fully vaccinated people, a breakthrough coronavirus infection will not ruin their health. It will, however, assuming that they follow all the relevant guidelines, ruin at least a week of their life.
That very frustrating week began for Joe Russell on November 11, the day he found out he’d tested positive for the virus, just one month after getting a Pfizer booster, and about five or six days after he’d first felt an annoying tickle in his throat. Russell,
More than half of England’s Omicron Covid cases were in double-vaccinated people, health officials revealed today amid fears the super-mutant can slip past existing jabs.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said 12 of the 22 known cases up to November 30 — 55 per cent — were in people who had at least two doses.
Cases of Omicron have risen domestically since, with 59 infections found across the UK in total. Six were unvaccinated, two were partially vaccinated with
This was supposed to be the Christmas in Europe where family and friends could once again embrace holiday festivities and one another. Instead, the continent is the global epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic as cases soar to record levels in many countries.
With infections spiking again despite nearly two years of restrictions, the health crisis increasingly is pitting citizen against citizen — the vaccinated against the unvaccinated.
Governments desperate to shield overburdened healthcare systems are imposing rules that limit choices
