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A member asked:
Help! could someone get whooping cough more than once in a lifetime?
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Yes: Neither natural disease nor vaccination provides lifelong immunity. Reinfections are generally milder.
Answered 8/9/2018
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Yes: Like strep throat, the whooping cough is a bacteria and you can get it more than once. Vaccinations we gave before the 90's had so many side effects, we didn't give boosters after 6 and teens/adults were the most often diagnosed group. Today's vaccine is milder and can be given to adults. The natural illness or vaccination produces only transient protection (up to a decade)
Answered 11/10/2018
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