A new study reveals more American children died of the flu in the 2003-2004 season than of chicken pox, whooping cough, and measles combined.

The study, led by Niranjan Bhat and Jennifer Wright of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, finds of the 153 children killed by flu in that winter, nearly two-thirds were under age five. The highest death rate being among infants under 6 months

An outbreak of whooping cough cases in Kansas this year has resulted in the death of one child and the infection of 54 people statewide, health officials said Wednesday.

So far this year, whooping cough cases have soared more than tenfold in Kansas compared to 2003, killing one young child and infecting people in 54 Kansas counties, health officials said Wednesday

In the first study of its kind, researchers at Saint Louis University have demonstrated immunization with a new vaccine could potentially prevent more than a million cases of pertussis (whooping cough) each year in adolescents and adults.

Most children are protected from pertussis by a series of vaccines in early childhood. But the vaccine protection wanes after a decade or so, leaving adolescents and adults susceptible to the bacterial infection

The United Nation's children's agency reports about 1.4 million children under the age of five die unnecessarily each year from measles, whooping cough, and other diseases preventable by vaccines.

According to the report, about 130 million children are born each year, and since 1990, about 70-ercent have received the vital immunizations - up from some 20-percent under the age of 1 in 1980

The U.N. children's agency reports about 1.4 million children under the age of five die unnecessarily each year from measles, whooping cough and other diseases preventable by vaccines.

According to the report, about 130 million children are born each year, and since 1990, about 70 percent have received the vital immunizations - up from some 20 percent under the age of 1 in 1980