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Quebec is seeing a sharp rise in whooping cough cases this summer. The provincial health ministry is reporting more than 6,000 [6016] cases of whooping cough so far this year. And of those, about 3,000 cases were confirmed just in the last 3 weeks. We spoke with Dr. Paul Saba, family physician at the Lachine Hospital.