The immunity for the disease (after the illness) turns to be very stable and remains for the rest of the life. The recurrent disease may occur when the patient is elder. However, as a rule, doctors take whooping cough for a simple cold as it is not very severe in the proceeding. Pert...
“I personally have seen a patient who’s died from pertussis this year, and I’ve seen several that have been in the ICU.” He added that most of the whooping cough patients he's seen have been unvaccinated and that he’s noticed a decline in vaccine coverage. “We’ve seen more ...
Following generalized vaccination whooping cough epidemiology has been modified in France: a resurgence of the disease, very often clinically atypical is currently observed in non-vaccinated infants contaminated by adults. Biological diagnoses are selected according to this new epidemiological situation. ...
Clinical diagnosis is done for children with typical symptoms, while polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing is needed if the patient is suspected to have whooping cough, doctors said. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests for whooping...
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A METHOD FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF WHOOPING-COUGH AND A TEST KIT FOR CARRYING THE METHOD INTO EFFECT A method for the diagnosis of pertussis, comprises incubating a body fluid sample from a patient with at least a portion of a fish scale containing a chromophore and sensitive to pertussis toxin ...
Sharyl Attkisson has covered the case of Elias Tembenis at CBS News. We reported on the US Vaccine Court win in December (HERE) when the result was made public. Read and comment on the story at CBS HERE. Is this...
It is therefore recommended that the disinfection by spirit should be confined to syringes employed for and by a single patient for the injection of insulin or adrenaline. Many experiments, briefly described in an appendix, were made with spirit, syringes themselves and various other infected test ...