article_snippet.sent: A health expert has slammed parents for not taking vaccination seriously after 19 children attending a primary school in north Brisbane contracted the potentially deadly disease whooping cough.
article_snippet.sent: The Sunshine Coast Daily reports that infectious diseases expert Professor Matthew Cooper, a professorial research fellow at the University of Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience, attributed a whooping cough outbreak in the area to an anti-vaccination trend.
article_snippet.sent: Parents have been accused of not taking vaccination seriously after 19 children attending a primary school in north Brisbane Brisbane contracted whooping cough . '
article_snippet.sent: It's unfortunately just part of a growing trend that many people have decided not to immunise,' he said. '
article_snippet.sent: We've seen this with other diseases that are more serious than pertussis but unfortunately the more people who choose not to immunise the more likely it is We'll get outbreaks.'
article_snippet.sent: Dr Cooper said if vaccination rates continued to fall there could be an increase in unfortunate and preventable deaths.
highlights_snippet.sent: The Infectious diseases expert says 'people have decided not to immunise'
  There have been 86 confirmed cases in 2015 in area - 16 in the past week .
  