Anyone can get whooping cough. While it is most dangerous to babies, it can still affect adolescents and adults. It’s important to remember that natural infection does not provide long-term protection and repeat infection can occur.4
Babies who are too young to be fully immunised are at increased risk of whooping cough. Some Australians, due to their age or circumstances, are at an increased risk of contracting the disease and are especially recommended to get vaccinated.1
These people include:
The longer it’s been since you were last vaccinated, the more at risk you can be of contracting the disease if you are exposed to an infected person. As immunity diminishes over time, you can still get whooping cough even if you've been vaccinated previously.4
Talk to your health care practitioner about whooping cough and its prevention today.
1. The Australian Immunisation Handbook. Pertussis (whooping cough). Available at: https://immunisationhandbook.health.gov.au/vaccine-preventable-diseases/pertussiswhooping-cough (accessed 28 March 2022).
4. NCIRS. Pertussis factsheet. Available at: https://ncirs.org.au/sites/default/files/2019-04/pertussis-fact-sheet_April%202019_Final.pdf (accessed 28 March 2022).
MAT-AU-2200966 Date of preparation June 2022
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