Related to whoop:whooping cough Medthe convulsive crowing sound made during a paroxysm of whooping cough Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005 Want to thank TFD for its existence?Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, or visitthe webmaster's pa...
In July, the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)issuedan alert amid the rise of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, in countries across the Americas, including Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and the US. Globally, the number of whooping cough cases w...
Related to Wooling:whooping cough wool wool,fiber made from the fleece of the domesticsheep. Composition and Characteristics Wool consists of the cortex, overlapping scales (sharper and more protruding than those of hair) that may expand at their free edges causing fibers to intermesh; elasticum,...
Early detection and widespread vaccination are key to stopping its spread.doi:http://www.modernmedicine.com/node/309278S. SchweonAdvanstar Communications IncRNSchweon S. Whooping cough makes its return. RN 2005;68:32-6.
Many diseases and conditions can symptoms of an acute or chronic cough. Signs and symptoms of an acute cough are chills, fever, body aches, sore throat, and headache while signs and symptoms of a chronic cough are chronic sinus infections, runny nose, o
(passive immunization). Whooping cough is a highly contagious disease, the most dangerous in the youngest children, mainly in the first 6 months of life. The risk of dying from whooping cough is highest in this age group. Vaccination of a pregnant woman protects the newborn and infant more ...
There were also therapeutic papers on immunization against diphtheria, scarlet fever, whooping cough, and measles and clinical papers on Hirschsprung's disease, lead poisoning, and meningitis. Dr. Wilkins had maintained an association with Edward Bridge in the epilepsy clinic at Johns Hopkins for ...
“As healthy as my lifestyle seemed, I contracted measles, mumps, rubella, a type of viral meningitis, scarlatina, whooping cough, yearly tonsillitis, and chickenpox, some of which are vaccine preventable” (Parker 1). This quote by vaccine advocate Amy Parker, a woman who was not vaccinated...
The COVID-19 pandemic has ignited interest in age-specific manifestations of infection but surprisingly little is known about relative severity of infectious disease between the extremes of age. In a systematic analysis we identified 142 datasets with information on severity of disease by age for 32...
“As healthy as my lifestyle seemed, I contracted measles, mumps, rubella, a type of viral meningitis, scarlatina, whooping cough, yearly tonsillitis, and chickenpox, some of which are vaccine preventable” (Parker 1). This quote by vaccine advocate Amy Parker, a woman who was not vaccinated...