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Pertussis (Also Called Whooping Cough.) Defined

Mainly affects infants and young children; caused by a bacterium, pertussis is characterized by paroxysms of coughing that end with the characteristic whoop as air is inhaled. Pertussis caused thousands of deaths in the 1930s and 1940s, but with the advent of a vaccine, the rate of death has declined dramatically.

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