Voorbeelden van whooping

• Whooping cough notifications continue to fall : young unimmunised infants remain at highest risk.

• Other disabling diseases, such as whooping cough, have been reduced in prevalence and severity.

• Instead of his being encased in a cage with his tormentors whooping around, the entire stage is turned into a dusky prison.

• Particular attention was paid to typhoid fever, smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough, diphtheria and croup, influenza, pulmonary tuberculosis, cancer and other malignancies, and puerperal septicaemia.

• Initially this was due largely to a fall in deaths from infective, parasitic and respiratory diseases, in particular, diphtheria, whooping cough, meningitis, poliomyelitis, measles, pneumonia and bronchitis.

• He claimed that the mermaids and men-fish were known for their loud whooping noises, as if they had the power to raise the storms with which they were associated.

• The latest available figures on notifications of whooping cough are shown in the table.

• Whooping cough immunisation can lead in a small number of cases to severe brain damage.

• Immunisation against whooping cough is unquestionably a success story.

• In the early 1950s, the number of whooping cough cases was roughly 157,000 a year, compared with 2,000 today.

• During the period 1957–61, there were 200 deaths from whooping cough in this country; by 1982–86, the number had fallen to 29.

• Most strikingly, that concern welled up during the 1970s in connection with whooping cough vaccine.

• Anybody who has seen a child with whooping cough or struck down with measles knows how sensible it is for children to be immunised.

• The committee has received 503 reports of adverse reactions to the vaccinations which include whooping cough vaccine, the greater proportion of which were minor.

• The reports on whooping cough published last month suggest that pertussis vaccine can lead to neurological damage in only a small number of cases.