Second Booster for Whooping Cough OKd
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A booster shot against whooping cough that works for adults won approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
Sanofi-Aventis’ Adacel is for people ages 11 to 64. A month ago, the FDA OKd the first-ever whooping cough booster, GlaxoSmithKline’s Boostrix, which is for 10- to 18-year-olds.
The cough, so strong it can result in broken ribs, was once thought to be history thanks to effective vaccination of babies and toddlers.
But the protection provided by those early-in-life shots has been found to gradually wear off.
