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| Although infections such as measles and pertussis are much more likely to kill a child who is malnourished, these infections can also kill healthy, well-nourished children. Malnutrition was not a contributing factor in the deaths of any of the children who died of pertussis in the United States in 199293. |
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Posted by the Canadian Paediatric Society, July 1997. |
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