These include measles, typhoid, hepatitis, dysentery, tuberculosis, diphtheria, whooping cough, leishmaniasis, (a disfiguring parasitic skin disease).
en.wikipedia.org Tuberculosis and whooping cough dramatically affected the elderly and young.
en.wikipedia.org The book develops the hypothesis that many of the most common diseases which afflict mankind, such as influenza, the common cold and whooping cough, have their origins in extraterrestrial sources.
en.wikipedia.org An outbreak of whooping cough in 1903 infected most children on the island, although only one died as a result.
en.wikipedia.org In 1948 there were seven deaths from whooping cough and 77 hospital admissions from acute nephritis.
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