|
Age |
Title |
Summary |
Published |
Format* |
| 18 days |
"Newborn's death
emphasizes need to consider pertussis in differential diagnosis of coughing
adults" |
Report
#76: A mother
with undiagnosed pertussis infects her three children and many members of her
extended family; her newborn son dies of the disease.
|
6/23/05 |
HTML
PDF |
1 wk., 4
yrs.,
7 wks. |
"Parents helpless as
children battle pertussis" |
Report
#74: Three
parents recount the suffering their young children endured during life-and-death
struggles with pertussis.
|
5/25/05 |
HTML
PDF |
| Infant |
"Infant dies after
contracting pertussis from adult family members" |
Report
#72: A
29-day-old infant's death underscores the need to protect nonimmunized or
partially immunized infants from exposure to persons with cough illness.
|
2/1/05 |
HTML
PDF |
| Infants |
"Pertussis claims life
of Texas infant" |
Report
#55: A newborn
becomes ill at 13 days, is diagnosed with pertussis at 25 days, and dies at 27
days.
|
5/30/03 |
HTML
PDF |
| Infants |
"Pertussis Deaths-United States,
2000" |
Report #47: Seventeen U.S. infants
die from pertussis in 2000.
|
7/25/02 |
HTML
PDF |
| 4 yrs. |
"Nick: A close call with whooping
cough" |
Report #23: Responding to media
stories about adverse effects of the vaccine, a couple halts their son's DTaP
series after the first shot. When the boy turns four, he is hospitalized with
whooping cough.
|
2/29/00 |
HTML
PDF |
| Infants |
"Pertussis claims the lives of two
infants" |
Report #10: Two San Francisco Bay
Area infants die of pertussis within a month of each other.
|
1/7/99 |
HTML
PDF |
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