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Health » Vaccines May Prevent Whooping Cough Cases
Oct 12, 2005

AP

The vaccine, tested on nearly 2,800 people ages 15 to 65, proved 92 percent effective in preventing infection with the highly contagious germ.

Whooping cough, or pertussis, can cause weeks of misery and coughing so severe it cracks ribs. The bacterial disease can kill children, particularly unvaccinated babies.

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