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mare tekekō

1. (noun) whooping cough, pertussis - a highly infectious disease that is spread by coughing and sneezing. It is caused by bacteria which damage the breathing tubes.

I muri mai o te taenga ai o te Pākahā, he tere te heke haere o te taupori Māori nā ngā mate rere noa o te Pākehā pērā i te rewharewha me te mare tekekō, nā te mea kāore ō rātou kaha ki te papare i aua mate tauhou. / After the arrival of the Pākehā, the decline of the Māori population was quite rapid through the spread of Pākehā diseases such as influenza and whooping cough, because they had no immunity to those foreign illnesses.

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Synonyms: mare heihei, mare motu

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