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.
A loud gasping cough can be triggered by pertussis, or whooping cough. Coughing, especially when accompanied by chest pain or breathing difficulty, can indicate a more serious medical condition, such as pneumonia, lung cancer, cancer of the larynx, congestive heart failure, or some other severe problem.