Vaccine hesitancy brings whooping cough epidemic to North Macedonia
H. H. Salter, On asthma: chest of an asthmatic. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection. This article is based the coverage by Meta.mk An edited version is republished here under a content-sharing agreement between Global Voices and Metamorphosis Foundation. Between January 1 and February 14, 2024, the Institute for Public Health of Republic of North Macedonia registered 28 cases of whooping cough (pertussis), mostly in unvaccinated babies. This is more than twice the total the number of cases in the previous five years (2019–2022) which amounted to 9. Epidemiologi...