To ask the Scottish Executive how the answer to question S2W-10400 by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 October 2004, showing that two children have died from whooping cough in Scotland since 1990, is consistent with the statement in the Sunday Herald on 22 August 2004 by public health official Dr Syed Ahmed that, of 100 babies who are hospitalised annually with a severe form of whooping cough, “about 10% die and most are under four or five months”.