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S. Korea reports 1st whooping cough death
Kang Yoon-seung
All News 13:17 November 12, 2024
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's disease control agency on Tuesday confirmed the country's first death from whooping cough, involving an infant, and urged pregnant women, families and caregivers to get vaccinated...
...The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said the infant, less than two months old, was diagnosed with whooping cough late last month and died last week after experiencing worsening symptoms.
It marks the first recorded death caused by whooping cough since the KDCA began compiling related data in 2011.
South Korea has been experiencing a sharp increase in the number of whooping cough cases, with 30,332 reported as of the first week of November, compared with just 292 cases recorded for all of 2023.
Children aged six years or less accounted for 3.3 percent of the total cases...
S. Korea reports 1st whooping cough death
Kang Yoon-seung
All News 13:17 November 12, 2024
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's disease control agency on Tuesday confirmed the country's first death from whooping cough, involving an infant, and urged pregnant women, families and caregivers to get vaccinated...
...The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said the infant, less than two months old, was diagnosed with whooping cough late last month and died last week after experiencing worsening symptoms.
It marks the first recorded death caused by whooping cough since the KDCA began compiling related data in 2011.
South Korea has been experiencing a sharp increase in the number of whooping cough cases, with 30,332 reported as of the first week of November, compared with just 292 cases recorded for all of 2023.
Children aged six years or less accounted for 3.3 percent of the total cases...