Can there be any connection between the whooping cough immunization and brain damage?

No: The anti vaccine crowd has re-invented itself over several decades. They have claimed they cause cerebral palsy, debunked; then crib death, debunked & now autism which research is now leaning to gene code issues present at birth. Brain damage is common to infants who have whooping cough in the first year as they struggle to breathe and cough hard enough to have a stroke.

No: There is a direct connection between whooping cough, the disease, and kids who cough so hard in their infancy that they have strokes and die.The vaccine haters have offered this disinformation for years.Now whooping cough rates have gone up from 2500 (90's) to 40000 in 2013. Deaths from whooping cough >30, vaccine related death or proven damage in the same period= 0.