Another newborn baby has died from whooping cough, MailOnline can reveal today amid growing fears the outbreak could be the worst in 40 years.
Nearly 3,000 cases of pertussis, or the 100-day cough, have already been recorded in 2024 — treble levels seen across the entirety of 2023. Nottingham, parts of Wales, Leeds and Sheffield appear to be the hotspots.
Only three of 330-plus districts across England and Wales have yet to report any suspected cases this year, MailOnline analysis
Pregnant women were today urged to get vaccinated against whooping cough amid a worrying surge in cases that has already killed five babies.
As a few as a quarter of expectant mothers have had the pertussis jab – offered between 16 and 32 weeks — in parts of London.
Similarly low levels are seen in other parts of the capital and Birmingham.
Experts today warned the outbreak could be the biggest ‘of the last 40 years’.
Almost 3,000 cases have
It starts with a one-line instant message from a lawyer to an editor: ‘I have a blockbuster Trump story.’
What follows is a blow-by-blow account of how a Playboy model sold her tale to the National Enquirer, casting a spotlight not just on chequebook journalism and supermarket tabloids but the case against Donald Trump as it unfolds in a cold, gloomy New York courtroom.
The details are laid out in a document presented at Trump’s hush money trial last week,
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Donald Trump returned for the Manhattan hush money trial on Thursday while his lawyers tried to persuade the Supreme Court he is immune from prosecution.
The former president listened to the third day of former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker’s testimony as the
Chilling video shows the moment top Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh hears for the first time that his three sons and ‘several’ grandchildren have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.
A voice can be heard delivering the news to the group’s top political leader during a visit to injured Palestinians, saying: ‘Hazem, Mohammed and Amir have been killed, along with their children.’
Haniyeh barely flinches as he hears the information, and remains composed as he nods and takes
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She’s one of far too many politicians of this moment who think and speak with no regard for truth or reasonable argument.
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Israel has fired two military commanders and reprimanded a third over a drone strike in Gaza that killed seven World Central Kitchen workers on Monday, saying they had mishandled critical information and violated the army’s rules of engagement.
The workers from the charity, which provides food relief in crisis and conflict zones, were killed when their convoy was hit repeatedly on Monday night shortly after they oversaw the unloading of 100 tons of food brought to the Palestinian territory by
Elon Musk’s Neuralink has been accused of allowing and enabling animal cruelty in its labs for years, but the company is not the first to sacrifice heaps of animals on the altar of brain-computer interface science.
In fact, the US government may have a worse body count over many decades, even though Neuralink has reportedly killed more than 1,500 animals along the way, including monkeys, pigs, and sheep while developing its brain chip.
In some of the worst cases,
The death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and accusations that Vladimir Putin was behind it have once again raised the spectre of Kremlin assassinations.
World leaders and commentators instantly pointed the finger at the Russian president when the news of Navalny’s death broke on Friday, with questions around the cause of death fuelled by officials delaying the release of the body.
Some have suggested the 47-year-old dissident was poisoned – as he was in 2020 in a previous assassination
Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce can be seen beaming alongside several teammates and their WAGs – including Patrick Mahomes’ wife Brittany – just hours after a mass shooting saw the team’s Super Bowl parade descend into tragedy.
In new pictures, obtained by DailyMail.com, star tight end Kelce – whose relationship with Taylor Swift dominated the NFL this season – was seen in a Kansas City sports bar on Wednesday. He is part of a small group that also includes
