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ABQjournal Opinion: Kids' Shots Too Important to Miss
... of not protecting your children against diseases that are still circulating across the world is much scarier. Every year we investigate cases of whooping cough, and almost every year infants in New Mexico die from the preventable disease. We will continue our work with the New Mexico Immunization ...
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ABQjournal Metro: 3-in-1 Booster Shot Now Required for 7th Graders
... shot for tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis, under new state rules. The key intent of the new rule is to curb the incidence of pertussis, or whooping cough, which is especially dangerous to infant children, said Anna Pentler, executive director of the New Mexico Immunization Coalition. The incidence ...
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ABQjournal NM: New Vaccine Required for 7th-Graders
... . Diphtheria, which causes a thick covering in the back of the throat, can lead to breathing problems, paralysis and death. Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, causes severe coughing spells. It can lead to pneumonia and hospitalization from complications. People who don't have a health provider ...
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ABQJOURNAL: N.M. Seventh Graders Must Have New Immunization
... . Diphtheria, which causes a thick covering in the back of the throat, can lead to breathing problems, paralysis and death. Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, causes severe coughing spells. It can lead to pneumonia and hospitalization from complications. People who don't have a health provider ...
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ABQjournal: Vaccines Keep Kids Healthy
... . But the alternative, no protection against preventable, life-threatening diseases, is unthinkable." Nickolas, a Georgia toddler, developed whooping cough after his parents, responding to media concerns about the vaccine, refused the shot. He lived, but, as his father said, "If you were able to ...
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ABQjournal: Treatment Needed to Stop Child's Soiling
... things we should think about when a child comes to us with a cough of long duration. It's terrible that I should have forgotten to mention whooping cough! Physicians often fail to think about it. If we miss this vaccine-preventable disease, we risk its spread to numerous contacts. Lance Chilton ...
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ABQjournal: From the North
... drivers in New Mexico. For more information about Road Watch New Mexico, contact Hicks at (505) 913-0199 or e-mail him at raven@ispwest.com. Whooping Cough Hub ID'd SANTA FE - Nearly half of the whooping cough cases reported in New Mexico in recent months have come from Santa Fe County ...
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ABQjournal: Around Northern N.M.
... me getting out of the way." Roger Gonzales, director of after school programs and special projects, has been named interim superintendent. Whooping Cough Hits SF County Nearly half of the whooping cough cases reported in New Mexico in recent months have come from Santa Fe County. The ...
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ABQjournal: Around Northern N.M.
... artists who fear they will be squeezed out are objecting to the proposal. Students Urged To Get Vaccine Santa Fe schools want to whack the whooping cough with a push to vaccinate more students. There have been three outbreaks of pertussis, or whooping cough, in public schools this month ...
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ABQjournal: Whooping Cough Reported in SF
Saturday, November 4, 2006 Whooping Cough Reported in SF The Associated Press Santa Fe is experiencing an outbreak of whooping cough, with 22 cases reported in the capital city since August, state health officials said. The number is unusually high for a three-month period, said Deborah Busemeyer ...
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