A bacterium known as Bordetella pertussis causes "whooping cough". The name refers to the whooping sound made upon breathing in during a prolonged coughing spell. This vaccine-preventable illness can be life-threatening to young children and even the elderly. In its early stages, it looks like ...
Because the cough is dry and doesn't producemucus, these spells can last up to 1 minute. Sometimes, it can cause your face to briefly turn red or purple. Most people with whooping cough havecoughing spells, but not everyone does.Infants may not make the whooping sound or even cough, but...
Get the facts on whooping cough (pertussis) symptoms (whoop sound), causes (Bordetella pertussis), treatment, vaccine (DTaP, Tdap), and transmission.
Slovakia's Public Health Authority said Thursday it had registered 123 cases of whooping cough by the end of February. 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 outb...
Placzek said being proactive is key to lowering infection numbers. "Cover your cough, wear your mask, know good hand hygiene," she said. She also said to reach out to your doctor or your child's pediatrician if you have questions about their vaccination status....
Like Drs Trollfors and Rabo, we found that there was a risk to newborn babies, either if their mothers had whooping cough at the time of confinement or if the babies on returning home from hospital came in contact with an infected sibling. Three women had whooping cough at the time of...
Whooping cough has been a scourge of men since the 16th century. It was only in 1906 that the bacterium responsible for the disease was identified. Before the advent of the vaccine, there were over a quarter of a million cases in the USA, including 9,000 casualties. The vaccine was final...
More than 3,000 Czechs have caught whooping cough so far this year, the highest figure since the 1960s, with teenagers the worst hit, health authorities said Friday.