When Marketing Trumps Science: Vaccine Edition

""[A]t best, the current views are that the 'protection' provided by 'pertussis' vaccination lasts no more than 3 years in some percentage of those who are 'fully' vaccinated and initially protected," wrote Dr. King. "In the pre-vaccination era, having a case of whooping cough and recovering from it conservatively provided 10 to 50 years of protection from a re-infection that resulted in a clinical case of whooping cough caused by either B. pertussis or B. parapertussis.""