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Instead of the usual 50 cases per year, over 1,100 cases of the highly contagious respiratory disease have already been registered this year, 700 of them since September alone, the state institute for public health announced on Wednesday. This is the highest number in ten years. According to the institute, most cases of the disease, which is particularly dangerous for babies and older people, occurred in the capital Zagreb and the coastal city of Split, which is popular with vacationers. Children between the ages of six and 14 are particularly affected.
In Croatia, children are required to be vaccinated against whooping cough. While 92 percent of babies received their first dose last year, only 88 percent received booster vaccinations recommended for seven-year-olds; in some regions only 68 percent.
Experts blamed the increasing number of anti-vaccination activists for this. The head of the institute for Split, Zeljka Karin, explained that the many myths about the negative effects of vaccinations that were circulating on the Internet were to blame. “The online networks are spreading panic,” she explained. According to her, the trend continued to increase after the corona pandemic.
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