Both here and abroad - that's a hole in the public health strategy.

to the best of my knowledge. I've never been recommended any apart from a secondary jab against Hep C.

it would seem to me -- that boosters would be an effective part of creating that Herd Immunity.

i wonder why the UK doesn't do that?

during the later years of secondary school.

People who work on farms, or are otherwise at high risk of getting wounds contaminated by soil, are recommended to have tetanus boosters as adults; otherwise, I have rarely heard of adults getting booster jabs.

I think it might not be a bad idea for whooping cough, because the childhood vaccine often wears off to some extent, and apparently adults often get it but in a milder form due to the residual effects of the vaccine, so they don't realize what it is and think it's a bad cold or bronchitis dragging on longer than usual. While it is not generally dangerous in that relatively mild form, the person could pass it on to unvaccinated people, so I'd support a booster for that one.

These days its a one shot job. I had it along with Hep A first time I went to Cuba in 2010 cos it was recommended for visits there by the NHS.

I know someone who has been physically disabled all her life because she got whooping cough at the age of one week.

I would guess the jab you had as a kid was combined whooping cough, diphtheria and tetanus - I know I had that one. Smallpox was a separate vaccine. I had that done as a baby, and then again at the age of 7 because we were travelling to Canada and they demanded it for visitors. Soon after that, it was decided that the disease was now so rare that the risk of vaccination side effects outweighed the risk of catching the disease - and then we heard that the disease had been eradicated altogether; one of the greatest bits of news in medicine!