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It was 1959 and Duguay, of Clearwater, Florida, had polio. It mostly preyed on children and was one of the most feared ...
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) yesterday said that 35 cases of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, were reported ...
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It’s a sound no parent wants to hear—that relentless cough that just won’t go away. Now, health officials are warning of a ...
It’s easy to forget how deadly whooping cough, measles, rubella, and polio once were—but for families who lost loved ones, ...
Whooping cough is making a surge in Canada at a time when schools are reopening and ahead of the fall respiratory illness ...
Whooping cough tends to peak around this time of year and in the fall. It's usually spread through respiratory droplets in the air, when people with pertussis cough, sneeze or breathe close to others.
Dr. Kuban: It's quite contagious.So if you had a group of 10 non-immune people exposed to this bacteria, 8 out of the 10 will get whooping cough. Unger: Hello and welcome to the AMA Update video and ...