Whooping cough still with us, still dangerous
Saturday, May 29, 2010 - 12:20
in Health & Medicine
The case of a new mom, who passed along the bacteria to her newborn son, who later died, is a cautionary tale. A booster vaccine in now recommended. Two days after her second son, Dylan, was born in 2005, Mariah Bianchi let out yet another deep-chested cough, this time in the hospital, where she was recovering from the delivery.