HAVING trouble shaking off a nagging cough? Then stay away from babies, as you may be suffering from whooping cough, which can kill newborns.
In most industrialised countries, whooping cough is almost a thing of the past thanks to vaccination. But now it’s making a comeback. Between 1995 and 1999, there was a fivefold increase in the number of cases in young babies in Finland, for example, even though almost all children are vaccinated. This has happened because neither the disease itself, nor the vaccine, confers lifelong immunity.
As a result more adults now carry the disease. It is harder…
