a disease of the respiratory mucous membrane

in years gone by, many children were afflicted with polio, measles, mumps, rubella, influenza, small pox, diphtheria, whooping cough and others.

在过去的岁月中，许多儿童患有小儿麻痹癥，麻疹，腮腺炎，风疹，流感，天花，白喉，百日咳和其他疾病。

try whooping cough instead—no one will want to talk to you.

可以试试百日咳之类的病——没有人会想和你说话的。

whooping cough (or pertussis):acute, very contagious childhood disease, typically with bouts of coughing followed by a long, loud inhalation (whoop) and ending with mucus expulsion and often vomiting.

百日咳：具有高度传染性的急性呼吸道传染病，多见于儿童。典型表现为发作性咳嗽，继之以深长的吸气（吼声），发作终了时排出清亮的黏痰，并常伴有呕吐。

when vaccine rates drop, deadly diseases can re-emerge – as we’ve seen recently with the whooping cough epidemic in california.

接种率一旦下降，致命的疾病就有可能「卷土重来」，最近在加州大规模爆发的百日咳疫情就是一例。

the risk still seems far less than the hazards of whooping cough in the young child.

这种危险似乎远低于幼儿患百日咳的危险。

whooping cough occurs mainly in young children .

百日咳多发生在幼儿身上。

whooping cough is a chronic cough as the main clinical manifestation of a latent form of asthma.

哮咳是以慢性咳嗽为主要临床表现的一种哮喘的潜在形式。

immunization against hib, pneumococcus, measles and whooping cough (pertussis) is the most effective way to prevent pneumonia.

针对b型流感嗜血桿菌、肺炎球菌、麻疹和百日咳进行免疫接种是预防肺炎的最有效方法。