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Family helps publicize whooping cough study
Whooping cough is making a comeback among infants, and researchers studying pertussis, the clinical name for whooping cough, say public health officials should give serious thought to changing the vaccination schedule so that newborns are immunized against the illness before they leave the hospital.See the full content of this document
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Starla Lacer-Sands agrees. Her 9-month-old son, Blayne Sands, came down with whooping cough in December, the week before he was supposed to receive his first DTaP vaccine. DTaP is a safer version of an ol...
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