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Australia is in the grips of its worst whooping cough outbreak since the introduction of vaccines as people continue to fall behind on immunisations. More than 41,000 cases of the highly infectious and deadly lung disease have been recorded in the nation so far this year, surpassing the previous annual record of 38,748 in 2011, according to an Immunisation Foundation of Australia report card.
Whooping cough epidemics are fairly predictable as they follow a pattern, the head of the Molecular Medical Microbiology Lab at the University of Technology Sydney Laurence Luu said. “However, we had not anticipated the magnitude of this outbreak, the largest since national notifiable disease reporting began,” he said. Luu said a drop in vaccinations was behind the infection surge, and it can “spread like wildfire” as it is more contagious than the flu.
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