Whooping Cough
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Alberta pediatricians sounding alarm over whooping cough: What to know about skyrocketing disease & symptoms
About 86 per cent of confirmed cases are from people who haven't been fully vaccinated from the disease.
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Whooping cough on the rise in southern Ontario — symptoms and prevention explained
Several public health units in southern Ontario are battling a rise in whooping cough cases.
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Why diseases prevented by vaccines are coming back with a vengeance in adults
When Erin Mathieson and her husband came down with a terrible cough earlier this year, she figured it was just a nasty side effect of having had the flu.
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Mom posts devastating video of baby with whooping cough to raise vaccine awareness
“This video may distress some people but I’m sharing to show just how scary and dangerous whooping cough is to babies who are too young to be vaccinated,” says Sandra Tee in a Facebook video that has been viewed more than 420,000 times. In the video, her 5-week-old daughter chokes and struggles to breathe, needing the assistance of an oxygen mask. “Whooping cough is not always a loud obvious cough,” she warns.
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New mother urges pregnant women to get whooping cough vaccination
In the video, Cormit describes how she was offered the vaccination during her 28th week of pregnancy, "but being the healthy, fit, organic woman that I am, I said ‘Leave me alone, I don’t need this crap’”.