All this cost money -- and the town didn't want to cough it up.
This is true of the flu, hepatitis and AIDS. With the avian flu, we've modeled the virus on supercomputers, and we think we understand why it binds deep in the lungs--it's not communicable--you don't cough it up.
Unlike most immunisation programmes this is unlikely to have a major impact on the spread of whooping cough because it is young adults who are most likely to spread the infection.
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Teenagers and adults can have whooping cough without knowing it and pass the condition along to infants, in whom the condition is much more serious because their immune and respiratory systems have not yet developed, Shu said.
It won't cover every cough and sniffle, but it will be there in case the worst happens.
If MeerKAT succeeds, it might help persuade sceptical governments to cough up for the SKA. It will also enhance South Africa's chances of hosting this much larger project.
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"If however the cough persists and gets more frequent, it is advisable to visit the pharmacist for advice on stronger medicines to treat the cough, " she said.
The sound of a baby struggling for breath with whooping cough is as distressing as it is distinctive.
Young parents today have probably never seen illnesses such as whooping cough, so for them it's "out of sight, out of mind, " Shu said.
Celltech's sales come mainly from aging products--the biggest is a cough medicine--that it bought to allow it to keep running without infusions of venture capital.
Authorities in the Indian state of Bihar have imposed restrictions on the sale of a cough syrup after reports that it was being widely used as a recreational drug.
But the William Blair study concludes that even if it has to cough up more tax, Amazon will still be able to offer prices that are lower than many rivals'.
"I'm not a medic so I don't know how it is passed on, but you can spit, cough, sneeze - anything that comes out of your body is how it is passed on I suppose, " he said.
Rarely, a mass in the mediastinum is diagnosed because it produces chest pain, cough or shortness of breath.
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Older children and adults who have whooping cough often appear to have a bad cold or persistent cough that can be so severe that it causes vomiting.
It may have resulted in whooping cough epidemics in California and measles outbreaks in England.
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And make no mistake about it: if measles, whooping cough, polio, and other vaccine-preventable diseases return, children will die.
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It is already happening with whooping cough in California, where 9 babies have died in the biggest epidemic in 60 years.
According to the Department of Health report, when vaccines against anthrax and pertussis (whooping cough) were administered simultaneously to animals, it resulted in a severe loss of weight and deterioration in their physical condition.
When this occurs, it's called chronic upper airway cough syndrome (or postnasal drip).
The defense department is supposed to cough up half of those cuts, even though it represents only a fifth of federal spending.
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It now wants to force firms to cough up the files.
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Switching to an investor-pays system might seem the obvious solution, but it is not clear that enough investors would cough up to make the business viable.
Much of this comes from distressed sellers, dumping their stakes cheaply to avoid having to meet their obligation to cough up more money when private-equity funds demand it.
It took Craig McCaw about 72 hours to cough up his shares to Sprint so that they could immediately resume more than 50% ownership after this Softbank Sprint deal was announced.
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The pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine has been failing us, because immunity against it fades.
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