SURINAME – Statistics indicate that there has been an increase in the number of whooping cough cases among young kids in Suriname. The statistics also indicate that a few babies have died as a result of complications of this highly contagious bacterial infection of the lungs and airways. “Whooping cough cases have been reported in almost all of Suriname’s districts,” said the Public Health Bureau (BOG) in a press release. In order to prevent babies from getting the whooping cough, the BOG started vaccinating women who are 27 to 36 weeks pregnant against the whooping cough which is also known as Pertussis…[+]