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Originally Posted by Not Afraid
Whooping Couch still exists? That's was a diseasse my Mom talked about in the 20's and 30's. Along the same lines as Polio and getting your tonsils yanked out by a rusty coathanger while sitting on the kitchen counter.
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It was certainly news to me also. The kids are immunized (even kids around our age) but it wears off as you get older. It's really only dangerous in infants. I expect I picked it up from someone on the cruise ship. The crew was a regular united nations.