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whooping cough
Also called pertussis, a bacterial disease of children causing upper respiratory symptoms with a characteristic whoop or inspiratory noise due to inflammation of the larynx. It is usually a relatively mild illness, except in the very young, but vaccination is widely practiced to prevent it.
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