Whooping cough
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Vaccines, Covid, and a health scare: How we ended up with a whooping resurgence
"I thought it was from medieval times, I thought it had been eradicated." Jayne Saywell, from Portobello in Edinburgh, described her surprise earlier this week in an interview with the BBC after her 16-year-old son, Tom, was diagnosed with an infection caused by the bacteria Bordetella pertussis - better known as whooping cough.
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