US EditionBaby dies of whooping cough as vaccination rates plummet
- A baby under one year old died of whooping cough in the UK between March and June 2025 after the mother was not vaccinated during pregnancy.
- This first whooping cough fatality this year follows longstanding government warnings about falling vaccine uptake and rising hesitancy among pregnant women and children.
- Whooping cough, a bacterial lung infection, has caused 33 infant deaths since vaccination during pregnancy was introduced in late 2012, with 27 of those babies relying on unvaccinated mothers for immunity.
- According to a senior UKHSA official, vaccination remains the most effective protection against whooping cough and is crucial for pregnant women to receive between 20 and 32 weeks gestation to help safeguard their babies before birth.
- The infant death underscores urgent worries as childhood immunization rates remain below WHO goals, leading to initiatives encouraging vaccination and the NHS introducing the chickenpox vaccine into the standard immunization program starting January 2026.
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Baby dies of whooping cough as vaccination rates take steep nosedive
A baby whose mother was unvaccinated against whooping cough has died after contracting the infection. The death is the first caused by whooping cough in the UK this year, just as vaccination rates are taking a nosedive across the nation. The infant, who is believed to be below the age of one, fell ill and died between March and June earlier this year, the UK Health Security Agency said. The same agency is responsible for defending the public fro…
·London, United Kingdom
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Urgent warning to pregnant women after baby dies from whooping cough
The UK Health and Security Agency (UKHSA) has issued an urgent warning to pregnant women after a baby died from whooping cough, the first fatal infection from the disease reported in 2025
·Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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