But that’s not always how serious illness plays out. Children who need to be on ventilators, have tracheostomies or ...

nurse manager for Rapid City Area Schools, said via email. According to the Mayo Clinic, “teens and adults often recover from whooping cough with no problems.” But in more extreme cases ...

Head of the National Reference Center for whooping cough at Institut Pasteur, who provided bioresources and expertise on Bordetella pertussis genomic analyses and epidemiology. In a second test ...

Young girl coughs while wrapped in a blanket. Whooping cough can cause severe bouts of coughing. But ... [+] babies, who are most vulnerable to the disease, may not cough at all. Cases of whooping ...

Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is a very contagious respiratory illness. For many, the bacterial infection starts with symptoms similar to the common cold — a runny nose, sneezing ...

The CDC and the Tulsa Health Department say the number of cases of Whooping Cough are increasing. The CDC says Whooping Cough, or Pertussis, is a respiratory illness that can cause a “whooping ...