New Whooping Cough vaccination guidelines

FRESNO, Calif.

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Health officials now recommend children as young as seven receive the Pertussis vaccine -- along with adults over 64. The revised guidelines also recommend that women of childbearing age get vaccinated before, during or after pregnancy ... As should people who are in contact with infants and pregnant women. But health officials say everyone is vulnerable.

Eight California infants have died this year as a result of the current epidemic -- Fresno County has more than 350-confirmed cases so far.

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