TY - JOUR T1 - Whooping cough in nursery school children JF - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners JO - J R Coll Gen Pract SP - 470 LP - 472 VL - 31 IS - 229 AU - Anne Roberts AU - W. O. Williams Y1 - 1981/08/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/31/229/470.abstract N2 - This paper describes an outbreak of whooping cough in a nursery school during a large epidemic in West Glamorgan. Explosive outbreaks of whooping cough occurred in nursery schools in the area when the majority of children had not been vaccinated. It is recommended that the period of quarantine for whooping cough should be four weeks. ER -