Caring for a woman who is pregnant and dependent on opioids is an opportunity to make life-changing interventions for the sake of her health and the health of her unborn child.
Unimmunized infants are at greatest risk for the potentially serious, even fatal, complications of this disease. New prevention measures are available. In 1976, when 1,010 cases of pertussis were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it was the lowest annual total ever recorded.1 By 2004, however, that number had risen to…