Data shows 37 babies under six months have been admitted to Queensland hospitals with whooping cough in 2024, compared to just 14 in all of 2023.
Whooping cough vaccination rates among pregnant women in Queensland have plummeted amid a surge in cases of the bacterial infection in 2024 — almost 23 times the number at the same period last year.
Queensland Health communicable diseases branch executive director Heidi Carroll said the disease could be life-threatening in babies. "They sometimes stop breathing, they sometimes get pneumonia. Worst case scenario … is that sometimes, unfortunately, they may die from the illness. "Dr Carroll said whooping cough vaccination in pregnant women provided their babies some protection until they were old enough to receive their first pertussis jab at two months.
The sunshine state has recorded more than 12,500 cases of whooping cough cases so far this year, compared with 549 at this stage in 2023 and 48 cases in 2022.
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