When people moved interstate, this often caused confusion if children were in the midst of an immunisation program and some didn’t complete their full course.

Triple antigen vaccine immunises against tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough or pertussis. It is now recommended that the first injection be given at two months of age, which is earlier than before. This is to provide some protection during the early months of life when mortality from whooping cough is highest.

Because of the risk of adverse reactions to the pertussis or whooping cough vaccine, which become more likely with increasing age of the child, this part of the triple vaccine is not given after the age of 18 months.

From this age on, complications from whooping cough are not life-threatening as they are in the young infant.

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