If you thought whooping cough went the way of beriberi and other 19th-century diseases with fanciful names, think again. Whooping cough is back with a vengeance with the worse outbreak in the United States in 50 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As ...
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Pertussis typically begins with cold-like symptoms and perhaps a mild cough. Pertussis is often not suspected or diagnosed until a persistent cough with spasms sets in after one to two weeks. Infants and children can cough violently and rapidly with a loud “whooping” sound. “Pertussis is not...
First described in the sixteenth century, whooping cough or pertussis is a relatively recent disease in human history, although some of the cough syndromes described in antiquity may in fact be pertussis-like diseases. Whooping cough caused by the gram-n
Amid a startling surge in whooping cough cases in Czechia, health experts and officials have raised the alarm over the escalating situation, the Czech State Health Institute describing it as the worst outbreak in a decade.
The disease isn't deadly for most U.S. adults, but, if infected, you could transmit the disease to someone more vulnerable
Can Whooping Cough Kill You? What Can People Do To Prevent Contracting Whooping Cough? Pertussis, commonly referred to as "Whooping Cough" has reared it's ugly head in Shreveport and it's left many people with a number of questions.
outbreak continues. What to know about symptoms and spread BYLindsey Leake October 11, 2024 at 4:35 PM EDT The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had preliminarily documented more than 17,600 whooping cough infections in the U.S. as of Oct. 5, 2024—more than four times the ...
In 2012 the USA saw the highest number of pertussis (whooping cough) cases since 1955. New research finds that a likely explanation for this rise in disease is a drop in the degree of vaccine protection for each vaccinated ...