whooping-cough

基本解釋

It is impossible to charm away the whooping-cough.
用符咒驅(qū)除百日咳是不可能的。
One ancient British superstition holds that if a child rides on a bear 's back it will be protected from whooping-cough.
某個古老的英國迷信稱，如果孩子騎在熊背上，孩子就不會得百日咳。
When vaccine rates drop, deadly diseases can re-emerge – as we’ve seen recently with the whooping cough epidemic in California.
接種率一旦下降，致命的疾病就有可能“卷土重來”，最近在加州大規(guī)模爆發(fā)的百日咳疫情就是一例。

In the 1970s, fears that whooping-cough vaccine might cause brain damage led to a decline in vaccine cover and an increase in outbreaks of the disease.
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Here are some facts: pre-vaccination, whooping cough caused 9000 deaths per year in the U.S. Post-vaccine, this has dropped to 20 deaths per year.
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So we can thank NVIC and other anti-vaccine groups, such as Generation Rescue (which claims, among many other mistaken notions, t hat the pertussis vaccine causes autism), for the re-emergence of whooping cough.
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Whooping cough is a serious infectious disease that causes people to cough and make a loud noise when they breathe in.