1. Purchase a SIM card if your carrier requires one. In order to activate your used phone, you will need to insert a SIM card for your plan. 1  Unless the device has been unlocked, it can generally only be activated on the same carrier it was originally activated on.
Whooping cough causes severe coughing spells, which can sometimes end in a whooping sound when the child breathes in. Before a vaccine was available, pertussis killed about 9,000 people in the United States each year. Now, the pertussis vaccine has reduced the annual number of deaths to less than 20.
The possible causes of dry cough in felines include: 1  Hair balls can get suck in your cat's throat. 2  The presence of these will lead to acute coughing episodes followed by spitting of the hair ball. 3  Asthma. 4  If the cat also sneezes, but has no other symptoms between the coughing episodes, asthma is the probable diagnosis.