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The Whooping Cough Epidemic.

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The diagnosis was whooping cough.

In 1921, whooping cough killed 316

I had measles and whooping cough.

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He has a predisposition to whooping cough.

Let's see, whooping cough or maybe scarlet fever.

For adults, whooping cough may only be a nuisance.

It's my child, he's been ill with whooping cough.

Tetanus, measles, polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, hepatitis B, yellow fever.

Hey, the portuguese are really whooping it up tonight, huh?

Matthew's doctor suspected it could be whooping cough, also known as Pertussis.

Whooping cough, violent cough, the hundred day cough all names for Pertussis.

There wasn't any whooping or they always say there is a whooping or a cough, he didn't have a cough or anything it was just that there was a cold.

But to infants whooping cough can be deadly, especially if not diagnosed early.

The bacteria that causes whooping cough was first isolated in Belgium in 1906.

We'll explore the worst whooping cough outbreak in California in more than 60 years.

The family was aware of the whooping cough epidemic in California, from news reports REPORTER

Diseases such as poliomyelitis, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, etc., have been eradicated and tuberculosis considerably reduced.

By 1996, the FDA approved a new whooping cough vaccine. It was called an acellular version.

This has contributed to the spread not only of measles, but also of whooping cough and mumps.

FARYON Dr. Mooi and Dr. Cherry both began their research into Whooping Cough about 30 years ago.

But it wasn't until the late 1940's scientists developed a vaccine effective enough to prevent whooping cough.

I also heard the whooping of the ice in the pond, my great bed fellow in that part of

From January to October this year, 10 newborns in California died from whooping cough, two in San Diego County.

All you have to do is to go out there and tell him that your child has whooping cough.

State health officials say more than 6,400 cases of whooping cough have been reported this year. FARYON And their pediatrician.

Seems I must discontinue my research, spend my life diagnosing measles mumps, and whooping cough or encounter his serious disapproval.

But later produces a violent and persistent cough, a cough that leaves children gasping for air creating the distinct whooping sound.

In addition, poliomyelitis has been eradicated since 1990 and diphtheria since 1991, while measles, whooping cough and tetanus have been brought under epidemiological control.

Just why it's made such a vengeful comeback has two of the world's leading whooping cough experts in disagreement. Dr. James Cherry of UCLA

The country has achieved the eradication of poliomyelitis since 1990 and diphtheria since 1991, and has started the epidemiological control of measles, whooping cough and tetanus.

But as the United States was changing vaccines something else was happening health officials across the country were reporting increasing numbers of positive whooping cough cases.

Meningococcus, the bacteria that can cause severe meningitis or blood stream infections, is still common enough in the United States. Pneumococcus is still common. Certainly whooping cough is common.

Just whether that mutation is to blame, at least in part, for the California epidemic and outbreaks elsewhere in the world is at the heart of the whooping cough debate.

And in a government lab about 30 minutes outside of Amsterdam, a group of scientists had discovered something else the bacterium that causes whooping cough started to look a little different.

Tonight we'll raise questions about the effectiveness of that vaccine. A four month investigation by KPBS and the Watchdog Institute, found many people who have been diagnosed with whooping cough were immunized.

Whooping cough was nearly wiped out by the late 1970's because of mass immunization, but it's somehow found its way back to California and other highly vaccinated communities around the world.

Prior to the vaccine the rate of disease was 157 cases per 100,000. By the 1970's, with large scale immunizations, fewer than one in one hundred thousand people got whooping cough.

Public Expenditures on Health as Percent of GDP gross domestic product Immunization Rates DPT3 diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus and measles Public Primary Education Spending as Percent of GDP Primary Education Completion Rate

As the number of people who have witnessed firsthand the effects of measles and other childhood diseases such as mumps, rubella, polio, and whooping cough has declined, so has society s commitment to keeping them away.

31, Preventive immunization) all people living in El Salvador are obliged to be properly vaccinated and revaccinated against whooping cough, diphtheria, tetanus, poliomyelitis, measles, tuberculosis and other diseases as deemed necessary by the Ministry of Health without any distinction.