Assoc. Mangarov indicated the reason for the boom in whooping cough in our country – Bulgaria

“Disadvantage of the pertussis vaccine is the cause of disease boom in our country now”. This was said by Assoc. Atanas Mangerov for Radio “Focus”.

“The pertussis vaccine always goes together with the diphtheria vaccine. Diphtheria has the same epidemiology as pertussis – airborne infection. There are cases not of diphtheria, but of whooping cough, because modern vaccines do not prevent a vaccinated person from becoming infected and making the disease asymptomatic by infecting others. This shortcoming of the vaccine was established 35 years after its introduction. They do not create group immunity, but this was understood only in 2014,” specified Assoc. Mangerov.

The peak of whooping cough in our country is expected by the end of May

“What is happening now has also happened in the United States, which introduced the same as our pertussis vaccine in 1994. In 2012, the same thing is happening there that we are currently observing in our country – a whooping cough epidemic. The reason is an organic defect of these vaccines. They are integrated in the 4, 5 and 6-valent preparations, it is difficult to throw them out of use. Vaccination against hepatitis B, etc. It is necessary to the problem is a new type of pertussis vaccine,” added the medic.

According to him, it is a symptom of whooping cough violent cough. “There can be cessation of breathing, hemorrhages in the brain. The number of white blood cells increases. In children, this is a serious disease – in newborns, premature babies and those who have not yet been vaccinated against whooping cough. For the rest of the elderly, it is a prolonged cough,” he said. also Assoc. Mangerov .

“An antibiotic can be given for whooping cough, but it has epidemiological significance. The antibiotic reduces a person’s ability to spread the infection, which is important for collective immunity, but not for the patient’s individual condition,” the doctor specified.

“A child with whooping cough without a vaccine, it cannot be protected from other children, but must be vaccinated. We need to understand that with the current state of vaccines, whooping cough passes through all children in a mild or severe form. It is pointless for a child who only coughs to enter a hospital. He should stay at home only if the cough is really very strong. It is unnecessary to close the educational institutions”, says Assoc. Mangerov.

“Herd immunity will be created after the epidemic has passed through all children. Children should be vaccinated according to the national calendar. Newborns can be vaccinated 2 weeks earlier. For the moment, in order to protect newborns, we need to vaccinate pregnant women women at the end of the third trimester of pregnancy, but not at the last moment before giving birth,” he clarified.

“Until their second month, children should stay at home and, if they can, postpone cakes, pies, baptisms. They can go out, but the whole family should not gather around the baby right during a pandemic,” said Assoc. Mangerov.

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