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Pertussis, more commonly known as “whooping cough,” is caused by the Bordetella pertussis bacteria. It is a respiratory illness which is reputed with a dreadful cough. The cough lasts so long that sometimes pertussis is called “the hundred day cough.” Natural remedies like vitamin C, the ...
Whooping cough is caused by the Bordetella pertussis bacteria. People of any age can get whooping cough, but babies under 1 year old and people who have a chronic respiratory illness, like asthma, are at greatest risk of more severe symptoms. How whooping cough spreads Whooping cough affects y...
whooping cough, acute, highly communicable respiratory disease characterized in its typical form by paroxysms of coughing followed by a long-drawn inspiration, or “whoop.” The coughing ends with the expulsion of clear sticky mucus and often with vomiting. Whooping cough is caused by the bacterium...
Whooping cough and croup are both infections of the respiratory tract. Croup is a viral infection, while whooping cough is caused by bacteria. Croup usually runs for a shorter time frame and goes away on its own. Also, there is no vaccine for croup, and it can't be treated with antibiot...
This now marks the most infections of the bacteria Bordatella pertussis reported to the CDC in a single week since 2015, when the country was coming off a resurgence of whooping cough cases that had peaked the year before. Whooping cough disease, caused by the pertussis bacteria, typically sta...
Despite high vaccine coverage, whooping cough caused byBordetella pertussisremains one of the most common vaccine-preventable diseases worldwide. Introduction of whole-cell pertussis (wP) vaccines in the 1940s and acellular pertussis (aP) vaccines in 1990s reduced the mortality due to pertussis. Despi...
Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is a bacterial infection of the respiratory tract that causes severe coughing. The disease is especially serious for babies.
Whooping cough (pertussis) is a very contagious respiratory disease caused by the bacteriaBordetella pertussis. When this bacteria infects the linings of the lungs, it causes significant inflammation and swollen airways. The result is intense, uncontrollable coughing. ...
Whooping cough is caused by the bacteria Bordetella pertussis, which had plummeted to record lows during the COVID-19 pandemic, likely due to more people at the time wearing masks and staying home from schools and offices. So far this year, a total of more than 10,000 pertussis cases ...