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Whooping Cough - has it really returned?
Whooping Cough – has it really returned? The health headlines in the UK have recently been dominated by stories about Whooping Cough, but what is the global picture and research into this con...
What Is Whooping Cough? What Is Pertussis?
Whooping cough, known medically as Pertussis, is an extremely contagious disease caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. Whooping cough is called the 100 days' cough in some countries. In many p...
Whooping Cough Epidemic In Washington State
The number of pertussis (whooping cough) cases registered in the state of Washington, USA, has risen considerably this year; in April 2012, the Washington State Secretary of Health declared an emergen...
CDC: Whooping cough cases may be most in 5 decades
Health officials say the nation is on track to have the worst year for whooping cough in more than five decades.Nearly 18,000 cases have been reported so far — more than twice last year's total. At...
Some Whooping Cough Strains Now Outsmarting Vaccine
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 6 -- The bacteria responsible for whooping cough may be evolving into different strains, and the current vaccine can't offer complete protection against these new strains, researchers...
Whooping cough webchat on Netmums
Parents are being invited to send in their questions about whooping cough ahead of a webchat scheduled for Tuesday 5 February. Dr Dawn Harper, from Channel 4’s Embarrassing Bodies programme, …...
Lessons From The 2010 California Whooping Cough Epidemic
Because whooping cough (pertussis) is almost as contagious as measles (affecting -12-17 individuals with each case), clinicians are required to report cases of this bacterial respiratory tract infecti...
What did we learn from the 2010 California whooping cough epidemic?
Because whooping cough (pertussis) is almost as contagious as measles (affecting ~12-17 individuals with each case), clinicians are required to report cases of this bacterial respiratory tract infecti...
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Whooping cough outbreak hits several US states.
Images in clinical medicine. Whooping cough in an adult.
Whooping cough, caused by Bordetella pertussis, is reemerging in the vaccinated population. Antibody levels to pertussis antigens wane rapidly after both whole-cell (wP) and acellular pertussis (aP) v...
Named for Belgian bacteriologist Jules Bordet, members of the genus Bordetella are small, gram-negative, aerobic coccobacilli that infect the respiratory epithelium in mammals. In 1906, Drs Bordet and...
A NOVEL APPROACH TO STUDYING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE MEASURES OF COUGH.
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Currently no data is available on the relationship between changes in objective and subjective measures of cough, the magnitude of change in cough frequency perceived by patients...
