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Anti-vax parents celebrate quadrupling whooping cough numbers in Texas

Ellsworth Toohey
Nov 12, 2025
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Texas just handed out an early Christmas gift to disease-loving parents everywhere: a whooping cough outbreak so spectacular it quadrupled last year’s numbers.

Over 3,500 cases and counting in the Lone Star State, marking an 11-year high even though two more highly infectious months are left in the year, repor…

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