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I had Whooping Cough when I was about 34 years old and lived in Elmira. My three young children had been immunized and so did not catch it from me. I was told it would take two weeks to "get it", two weeks to "have it" and two weeks to "get over it", and that turned out to be right. At the end of six weeks I was recovered, but those two middle weeks were very rough with the whooping cough just debilitating me.

The first two weeks are like a bad cold, but soon that whoop starts, and you can't mistake it - it just about knocks you off your feet. So, if you get a bad cold, see a doctor. I did, but it was a doctor I had not seen before and he did not believe I had whooping cough when I told him I thought I did. (He just told me to stop smoking, which I couldn't as I had never started.)

I recommend that everyone take this threat of the illness seriously. It's hard enough on a healthy young adult, it must be terrible for the very young and very old.

From: Louise Bement

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