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Wednesday, Aug 01st 2012
Whooping Cough as We Haven’t Seen it Since 1959
by Sally Jones
Whooping Cough Is Vaccine-PreventableA record 18,000 whooping cough cases have been reported to the CDC so far this year - that's twice the number compared to this time last year. If this mid-year trend continues we could be looking at rates of whooping cough the likes of which we haven't seen since 1959.
