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Kat Wong

Whooping cough outbreak 'well overdue', experts say

Catherine Hughes' son Riley passed away in 2015, too young to receive a whooping cough vaccine. (HANDOUT/CATHERINE HUGHES)

Riley was just three weeks old when he developed a sniffle, and four weeks old when he died.

In 2015, Catherine Hughes' son had caught whooping cough, a respiratory infection that attacks the airways and causes bouts of uncontrollable coughing.

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