It depends what strain your brother has. The new Whooping Cough vaccine is synthetic as opposed to the pre-2005 whole cell vaccine and misses two of the strains.
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It depends what strain your brother has. The new Whooping Cough vaccine is synthetic as opposed to the pre-2005 whole cell vaccine and misses two of the strains.
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Are you serious, how do i know what strain her has and what ones are missed in the new vac?
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The only way to know what strain he has is through a blood test. The two strains no longer covered by the vaccine are MT27 and MT70. Honestly, there isn't much you can do about it now if they have been exposed, just keep an eye out for symptoms like you would generally.
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Ok thanks, i will ask mum if he had a blood test and what the strain was... atleast then i will know if i have to be extra careful... damn it.. sooo not what we need right now.
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From my understanding the vax is around 70% effective, your kids could still catch it but if they have been exposed to strains that they have been immunised against it will probably be less serious. Apparently there is another, newer strain going around that is not in the current vax's.
Are you BF'ing your youngest? If you are I would keep that up, offering her as much as possible.
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Called mum and she has no idea what strainargh
I am BFing DD2 but the booster i had is the same as theirs so really if it's the different strain that leaves ALL of us open to it...
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I hope it misses you all hun.
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