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A Teenager's Pertussis Story: Sophie Starcevic
Source: Society for Adolescent Medicine
www.adolescenthealth.org/Pertussis_Profile_Sophie_Burke.pdf

A Teenager's Pertussis Story: Zach Graham
Source: Society for Adolescent Medicine
www.adolescenthealth.org/Pertussis_Profile_Zachary_Graham.pdf

Newborn's death emphasizes need to consider pertussis in differential diagnosis of coughing adults
Source: IAC Express #534, June 23, 2005
www.immunize.org/reports/report076.asp

Parents helpless as children battle pertussis
Source: IAC Express #527, May 25, 2005
www.immunize.org/reports/report074.asp

Infant dies after contracting pertussis from adult family members
Source: IAC Express #509 February 1, 2005
www.immunize.org/reports/report072.asp

Outbreaks of Pertussis Associated with Hospitals--Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Oregon, 2003
Source: MMWR, January 28, 2005
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5403a3.htm

School-Associated Pertussis Outbreak--Yavapai County, Arizona, September 2002-February 2003
Source: MMWR, March 19, 2004, Vol. 53(10):216-9
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5310a4.htm

Pertussis claims life of Texas infant
Source: IAC Express #387, May 30, 2003
www.immunize.org/reports/report055.asp

Pertussis Outbreak Among Adults at an Oil Refinery--Illinois, August-October 2002
Source: MMWR, January 10, 2003, Vol. 52(1):1-4
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5201a1.htm

Pertussis Deaths-United States, 2000
Source: MMWR, July 19, 2002
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5128a2.htm

A close call with whooping cough
Source: IAC Express #142, February 29, 2000
www.immunize.org/reports/report023.asp

Pertussis claims the lives of two infants
Source: IAC Express #42, January 7, 1999
www.immunize.org/reports/report010.asp

Pertussis Outbreak -- Vermont, 1996
Source: MMWR, September 5, 1997
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00049244.htm

 

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