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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
George Lithgow

Pregnant women urged to get whooping cough vaccine after baby death

Pregnant women have been urged to get vaccinated following the death of a baby after contracting whooping cough.

The death, which happened between January and June 2025, is the first fatal case of the infection in the UK this year.

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