1. Purchase a SIM card if your carrier requires one. In order to activate your used phone, you will need to insert a SIM card for your plan. 1  Unless the device has been unlocked, it can generally only be activated on the same carrier it was originally activated on.
Whooping cough causes severe coughing spells, which can sometimes end in a whooping sound when the child breathes in. Before a vaccine was available, pertussis killed about 9,000 people in the United States each year. Now, the pertussis vaccine has reduced the annual number of deaths to less than 20.
Whooping cough, known medically as pertussis, is a highly contagious respiratory infection caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis that can cause coughing and choking fits. It was a major cause of serious illness and death among infants and young children prior to the development of the pertussis vaccine in the early 1940s.