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Article: Whooping cough spreads; Disease misdiagnosed - mother
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- The Press
- Article date:
- September 11, 2002
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A Canterbury mum fears children with whooping cough are being
misdiagnosed with asthma as the contagious disease grips the region.
Maxine Saunders' son, Daniel, coughed for six weeks and was told
three times by a GP that he had asthma before he was diagnosed with
whooping cough.
The eight-year-old, who was immunised against the disease, is one
of the nine reported cases of whooping cough in Canterbury last week.
His seven-year-old sister, Louise, is another.
Health officials are predicting a whooping cough epidemic similar
to the one that ravaged the country in 1999.
Crown Public Health figures show there were 62 reported whooping
cough cases during August in Canterbury, South ...