The Health Protection Agency has urged parents to ensure they get their babies vaccinated against whooping cough after five deaths from the condition.
In what is thought to be the biggest outbreak in two decades, 1,781 adults and children have had the illness, according to HPA figures, compared to 2010 when there were just 137 cases of the condition named after the whooping sound children make in between coughs.
The HPA data also reveals that up to the end of May this year there have been 138 cases in babies aged under three months, six times the number compared with two years ago when there were just 22, with five deaths.
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