Reassurance on Vaccine A large study has found no evidence that whooping cough vaccine causes brain damage or is responsible for seizures in infants.

Whooping cough vaccines are recommended for people who have contact with young babies.

In 1997, the whooping cough vaccine, which sent some babies into anaphylactic shock, was replaced by a safer version.

In the past, no whooping cough vaccine was licensed for use past the age of 7.

A study has found no evidence that a widely used whooping cough vaccine causes brain damage, researchers say.

Dr. Duane Alexander, director of the child health institute, explained that the current whooping cough vaccine was the most dangerous of all vaccines given to children.

A17 A study of a whooping cough vaccine blamed for seizures and other problems in some infants did not find any evidence that the vaccine causes brain damage.

Leila Denmark, 114, American supercentenarian, author, and physician, credited with developing a whooping cough vaccine.

It was announced that the Whooping cough vaccine would be made available to all pregnant woman in the UK from the 1st September 2012.

Whooping cough vaccine is known to be effective in preventing the illness (or at least lessening its effects) in an individual.