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Article: Whooping cough statistics show deadly risk rising.(Life - Health)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- January 23, 2007
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Byline: JEAN P. FISHER - Raleigh News & Observer
When Debbie Quinn's newborn son developed a runny nose and a cough within weeks of his birth in June, Quinn figured he had picked up her husband's lingering cold.
But little Austin's symptoms quickly grew severe, until he had violent coughing spells that shook his body and turned him beet-red. He began to vomit after taking a bottle. Alarmed, Quinn and her husband Buddie, who live in Raleigh, N.C., took their 1-month old son to the emergency room.
The ER doctor at WakeMed listened to the infant's cough and almost instantly said a word the Quinns had never heard before: pertussis.
It ...