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Monday, January  6, 2003. Posted: 01:11:16 (AEDT)

Whooping cough epidemic threatening 40,000 children in Afghanistan

The United Nations (UN) is airlifting and driving medical supplies to remote mountain villages in north-eastern Afghanistan, where a whooping cough epidemic is threatening the lives of 40,000 children.

The World Health Organisation estimates more than 60 children died after an outbreak of whooping cough in seven villages in the area in October.

The UN says it is aiming to give up to 80,000 people in the area a two-week course of antibiotics to protect them against the disease.

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