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Whooping cough claims lives of two babies in Mexican border towns
Friday, March 20, 2009 at 11:40 a.m.
Tamaulipas health officials are reporting that two babies have died from whooping cough south of the border.
The MetroNoticias de Tamaulipas newspaper reported that health officials are investigating how the children contracted the disease.
Several cases of the deadly disease have recently reported among children along the Mexican side of the border.
The Tamaulipas Healthy Ministry told MetroNoticias that the two babies who died were from the border cities of Rio Bravo and Nuevo Laredo.
Rio Bravo is located cross the Rio Grande River from Donna, Texas.
Click here for the full story in Spanish from MetroNoticias de Tamaulipas
Whooping cough claims lives of two babies in Mexican border towns
Friday, March 20, 2009 at 11:40 a.m.
Tamaulipas health officials are reporting that two babies have died from whooping cough south of the border.
The MetroNoticias de Tamaulipas newspaper reported that health officials are investigating how the children contracted the disease.
Several cases of the deadly disease have recently reported among children along the Mexican side of the border.
The Tamaulipas Healthy Ministry told MetroNoticias that the two babies who died were from the border cities of Rio Bravo and Nuevo Laredo.
Rio Bravo is located cross the Rio Grande River from Donna, Texas.
Click here for the full story in Spanish from MetroNoticias de Tamaulipas