Riley Hughes died in a Perth hospital at March 17 on just 32 days old . Parents Greg and Catherine Hughes urged others to get vaccinated . They want to stop other parents from having to endure the same heartache . They have set up a Facebook page in Riley 's honour and raised $ 36,000 . Whooping cough is 'highly infectious ' and lethal in babies . Immunisation against it is available for children from two months old . In Australia it is the least well controlled of all vaccine-preventable diseases .
Riley Hughes died in a Perth hospital at just 32 days old on March 17 . Parents Greg and Catherine Hughes urged others to get vaccinated . They want to stop other parents from having to endure the same heartache . They have set up a Facebook page in Riley 's honour and raised $ 36,000 . Whooping cough is 'highly infectious ' and lethal in babies . Immunisation against it is available for children from two months old . In Australia it is the least well controlled of all vaccine-preventable diseases .