Pertussis outbreak -- Vermont, 1996.
Pertussis is increasingly recognized as a disease that affects older children and adults, including fully vaccinated persons. This report describes a statewide outbreak of pertussis in Vermont (1995 population: 584,771) in 1996 in a highly vaccinated population, affecting primarily school-aged children and adults, and underscores the need to include pertussis in the differential diagnosis of cough illness in persons of all ages.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D008875:Middle Aged; D014707:Vermont / Q000453:epidemiology; D014917:Whooping Cough / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*