Government adviser points to low levels of vaccination among pregnant women and says it is putting infants at particular risk
More babies will die from whooping cough in the UK unless vaccination rates go up to slow the spread of the infection, a leading expert has warned, citing low take-up of jabs among pregnant women as a particular concern.
Prof Sir Andrew Pollard, a consultant paediatrician and the chair of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which advises the government, said under-vaccination was putting “the most vulnerable – those who are too young to have been vaccinated – at greatest risk”.
