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Information for health professionals

Whooping cough belongs to the notifiable infectious diseases in Brussels (link is external), Flanders (link is external) and Wallonia.

You can find more information about case definition, treatment and prevention in the Agentschap Zorg & Gezondheid (Care & Health Agency (link is external)) (link is external) or AViQ — Agence pour une Vie de Qualité (Agency for Quality of Life) guidelines.

Sciensano & Whooping cough

Sciensano is responsible for surveillance of the number of whooping cough cases in Belgium. One of these data sources is the National Reference Centre for Pertussis, a collaboration between UZ Brussel (Brussels University Hospital) and Sciensano. Sciensano also coordinates the paediatric surveillance network, Pedisurv. The collected information is offered to policymakers to support the health policy. Finally, the Quality of Vaccines and Blood Products department is the Belgian Official Medicines Control Laboratory (OMCL) which is responsible for quality control of the vaccines...

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