Over the past decade, the anti-vaccine movement has successfully convinced millions of parents to leave their kids unvaccinated, and the result has been serious outbreaks of whooping cough, haemophilus, measles, chicken pox, and mumps around the U.S. and Europe.

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Dr Amber Young, consultant paediatric anaesthetist at the South West Paediatric Burns Centre at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol and clinical adviser to the project said when a child with a small burn develops a high temperature there is no easy way of knowing if the child has a serious bacterial infection, or simply a cough or cold.

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Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, can be a serious illness, especially in the very young.

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In older children and adults whooping cough is said to be unpleasant but does not usually lead to serious complications.

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Whooping cough in older people can be an unpleasant illness, but does not usually lead to serious complications.

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Teenagers and adults can have whooping cough without knowing it and pass the condition along to infants, in whom the condition is much more serious because their immune and respiratory systems have not yet developed, Shu said.

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