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Vaccine refusal linked to California pertussis outbreak
USA TODAY
The 2010 California outbreak of the extremely contagious respiratory disease pertussis (also known as whooping cough) was the largest in more than 60 years. It resulted in 9,120 cases and 10 deaths -- a third of all the cases seen in the USA that year.
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