{"id":14253,"date":"2024-08-17T08:03:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T08:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/?p=14253"},"modified":"2024-08-29T08:09:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T08:09:55","slug":"unique-factors-to-consider-when-exploring-the-surge-in-reported-pertussis-cases-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/unique-factors-to-consider-when-exploring-the-surge-in-reported-pertussis-cases-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Unique factors to consider when exploring the surge in reported pertussis cases in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-mo\">\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bc<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14253\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-en\" title=\"English\">English<\/a>\u3002<\/p><p>By <span class=\"authors\"><span role=\"list\"><span role=\"listitem\"><span class=\"dropBlock\">Qian-qian Du<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> et al.<\/p>\n<p>Source The Lancet<\/p>\n<div id=\"p0010\" role=\"paragraph\">The increasing number of pertussis cases and fatalities in\u00a0China is concerning, with decreased immunity after acellular vaccination being a key reason for the increase.<span class=\"dropBlock reference-citations\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/span> However, to understand the current increase in the number of pertussis cases in China, attention should be\u00a0paid\u00a0to the resurgence of cases before the COVID-19 pandemic and the apparent change in the <i>Bordetella pertussis<\/i>\u00a0pathogen.<\/div>\n<div id=\"p0015\" role=\"paragraph\">Although China is among the few countries using copurified acellular pertussis vaccines in national immunisation programmes, declining protection after inoculation is not a unique problem. Reduced vaccine-induced immunity contributes to the resurgence of pertussis. Remarkably, the coverage of the diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis vaccine in China has remained above 98% during 2009\u201322, despite the COVID-19 pandemic.<span class=\"dropBlock reference-citations\"><sup>2<\/sup><\/span> If\u00a0waning immunity was solely responsible, logically more cases would be observed in adolescents and adults.<\/div>\n<div role=\"paragraph\"><\/div>\n<div role=\"paragraph\">Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/PIIS266652472400212X.pdf\">click here<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bcEnglish\u3002By Qian-qian Du et al. Source The Lancet The increasing number of pertussis cases and fatalities in\u00a0China is concerning, with decreased immunity after acellular vaccination being a key reason for the increase.1 However, to understand the current increase in the number of pertussis cases in China, attention should be\u00a0paid\u00a0to the resurgence of cases before the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-materials-on-influenza-and-coronaviral-prevention-and-treatment","category-scientific-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14257,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14253\/revisions\/14257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}