SciDev.Net Nov 7 2024 Comprehensive coverage of the hexavalent vaccine can protect against whooping cough and polio, averting disease resurgence, writes Esther Nakkazi. Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a preventable disease, yet it still kills more than 150,000 children under five every year – most of them in low- and middle-income countries. Also known as the 100-day cough, the bacterial infection, which affects the lungs and airways, can last for two to three months or more, making babies and