NewYork.cbslocal.com (exerpts):  Lindenhurst, NY - An alarming rise in a potentially fatal bacterial infection known as whooping cough has prompted a warning from the Suffolk County Health Department.  It's a chronic cough, almost a barking sound, that can last more than three months and it is spread easily through droplets.  The whooping cough outbreak started with 13 cases in Smithtown on Long Island in June.  Since then, it has spread to more than a dozen districts in Suffolk County.  Wha...
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