Panel: Gramps, get whooping cough shot

Whooping cough is now at epidemic levels in California and the state could record the highest number of illnesses and death due to the disease in 50 years, the state's top health official said Wednesday.

Californians are rushing to get themselves inoculated against a whooping cough epidemic which has claimed the lives of several babies.

A study has found that nearly 40 percent of British children examined by doctors for persistent coughing show symptoms of whooping cough infections.

(AP) -- Health officials say vaccination rates for toddlers remain high, but they are concerned about an overall drop in measles vaccinations.

(AP) -- State health officials reported Thursday that California is on track to break a 55-year record for whooping cough infections in an epidemic that has already claimed the lives of nine infants.

A Cook County, Ill., Public Health Department official says the county may ban students not vaccinated for whooping cough from public schools.

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