Whooping cough, or pertussis, is highly contagious and can be serious for infants who are too young to be vaccinated. The CDC recommends babies get their first Tdap shot at 2 months of age. "Getting Tdap during pregnancy offers infants the best protection before they are old enough to receiv...
Whooping cough – (pertussis) is an acute infectious disease accompanied by inflammation in the upper respiratory tracts and paroxysmal spasmodic cough. Among the most frequently infected are unvaccinated children under the age of 5. But infants are even more frequently affected by such a disease. T...
Croup and whooping cough are two respiratory conditions that affect children primarily. Learn about the causes, symptoms, and treatments of croup and whooping cough, which is a viral infection, and which is a bacterial infection. Sick Children Benji and Dalton are both 6-month-old baby boys ...
whooping cough are on the rise after being virtually eliminated in the u.s.—and a new study finds that anti-vax attitudes are to blame. by korin miller march 24, 2016 pregnancy & parenthood a mom posted a heartbreaking video of her baby to educate people about vaccines four-week-old ...
WHOOPING COUGH EPIDEMIC! {Whooping Cough Alert as Baby Dies}
Before 2020, Slovakia had "dozens to hundreds" of cases per year, it added. In January, Serbian media reported the death of at least four children in a whooping cough outbreak in the capital Belgrade, with doctors blaming falling vaccinations for the spread....
Michigan mother raises awareness about pediatric vaccines after losing baby A mother is working to raise awareness about vaccines after her baby died before she was old enough to get all of the vaccines necessary to prevent her from getting whooping cough. DETROIT (FOX 2) - In 2012,...
Whooping Cough Baby Clinging to Life
Its symptoms include runny nose, low-grade fever and cough. It is highly contagious and can be transmitted by inhaling droplets coughed or sneezed into the air. In the past, it was one of the most comm...
Proposed is a method for assessing the susceptibility of a baby to whooping cough during the first months of life. Determined is the content of immunoglobulin G to the whooping cough pathogen in the venous blood of the woman in the third trimester of pregnancy. When antibodies are detected at...