Pertussis - Help Protect Your Baby By Helping To Protect Yourself

Why all parents need to be vaccinated? Pertussis, more commonly known as whooping cough, is a highly contagious bacterial disease that's potentially fatal to infants. And babies often catch pertussis from the people who love them the most.,,their own parents. The scary fact is that researchers have found that up to 80 percent of babies caught disease from family members. Unvaccinated adults and adolescents can contract and spread this serious disease, often without even realizing it. When you get vaccinated, not only are you helping to protect your own health. you're helping to protect your baby too.