New Brunswick - Whooping cough vaccination in January

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Whooping cough vaccination effort in N.B.

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 | 3:48 PM AT CBC News ​

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The New Brunswick government will begin immunizing new parents against whooping cough in the hopes of preventing an outbreak.
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Dr. Paul Van Buynder, the province's deputy chief medical officer of health, said the vaccines will be rolled out in January to fight whooping cough, also known as pertussis, which is a bacterial infection in the respiratory tract that resembles a common cold except for the prolonged coughing.​

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In the 1950s, thousands of young Canadian children and infants came down with the illness, many died and a huge vaccination program got underway.

Within the last year, Saskatchewan, British Columbia and California have had outbreaks of whooping cough.​

Van Buynder said he believes New Brunswick is overdue for an outbreak.​

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