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Deadly disease is coming back — doctors say they haven’t seen it for ‘years and years’

Nypost · · 492 words · By Rachel Sacks
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Deadly disease is coming back — doctors say they haven’t seen it for ‘years and years’ A deadly vaccine-preventable disease is making a comeback.

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What happened

Deadly disease is coming back — doctors say they haven’t seen it for ‘years and years’ A deadly vaccine-preventable disease is making a comeback.

Why it matters

A highly contagious and fast-moving infection that primarily affects children under five years of age is back, as fewer babies get vaccinated year after year.

Common ground

And doctors who have been trained in the past 40 years have never seen a case before.

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No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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Claim 1: “Doctors who have been trained in the past 40 years have never seen a case before.”
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Claim 2: “Studies have shown the full series is at least 93% effective in preventing the bacterial illness.”
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Claim 3: “Prior to a vaccine being readily available, nearly 20,000 children were affected by the illness, resulting in permanent brain damage and 1,000 deaths per year, according to the CDC.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The DPT vaccine or DTP vaccine is a class of combination vaccines to protect against three infectious diseases in humans: diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), and tetanus (lockjaw). The vaccine com…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DPT_vaccine
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Haemophilus influenzae (formerly called Pfeiffer's bacillus or Bacillus influenzae) is a Gram-negative, non-motile, coccobacillary, facultatively anaerobic, capnophilic pathogenic bacterium of the fam…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemophilus_influenzae
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Haemophilus influenzae type B vaccine, also known as Hib vaccine, is a vaccine used to prevent Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) infection. In countries that include it as a routine vaccine, rat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hib_vaccine
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Claim 4: “As of March 21, the CDC had logged eight cases so far this year: two in Ohio, two in New York and one case each in Kansas, North Carolina and Tennessee.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Haemophilus influenzae (formerly called Pfeiffer's bacillus or Bacillus influenzae) is a Gram-negative, non-motile, coccobacillary, facultatively anaerobic, capnophilic pathogenic bacterium of the fam…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A hexavalent vaccine, or 6-in-1 vaccine, is a combination vaccine with six individual vaccines conjugated into one, intended to protect people from multiple diseases. The term usually refers to the ch…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexavalent_vaccine
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Haemophilus influenzae type B vaccine, also known as Hib vaccine, is a vaccine used to prevent Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) infection. In countries that include it as a routine vaccine, rat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hib_vaccine
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Claim 5: “Three to four Hib shots (depending on which brand they get) are recommended for all kids under age 5 by the agency.”
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Claim 6: “The CDC reported last week that the percentage of babies who received a full series of Haemophilus influenzae type b shots fell slightly from 78.8% to 77.6% between 2019 and 2021.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The DPT vaccine or DTP vaccine is a class of combination vaccines to protect against three infectious diseases in humans: diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), and tetanus (lockjaw). The vaccine com…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DPT_vaccine
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Haemophilus influenzae type B vaccine, also known as Hib vaccine, is a vaccine used to prevent Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) infection. In countries that include it as a routine vaccine, rat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hib_vaccine
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, is a tick-borne disease caused by species of Borrelia bacteria, transmitted by blood-feeding ticks in the genus Ixodes. It is the most common disease spre…
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Claim 7: “A deadly vaccine-preventable disease is making a comeback.”
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Claim 8: “It’s not just Hib vaccines that are on the decline, though, as vaccination rates continue to drop across the nation for several diseases, including measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) and polio.”
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