School chaos fears as kids suspected of having whooping cough should be excluded for up to 3 weeks amid 'worst outbreak in 40 years' that has sparked calls for terrifying ads to boost vaccine uptake
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I feel so guilty for dismissing my 10-year-old daughter's symptoms as 'just' a cough but I wonder how much worse it could have been had we skipped the whooping cough vaccine
I'll admit I was blithely unconcerned. Frankie is nearly 11 and generally pretty robust. She's rarely ill and it would never have crossed my mind to make a GP appointment over it.
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