Whooping Cough

In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that children receive multiple doses of the whooping cough (pertussis) vaccine as part of the routine childhood vaccination schedule. This includes the DTaP vaccine for infants and young children, and the Tdap vaccine for older children and adolescents. Vaccination coverage rates may vary by region and population.

It would be. It would make it hard to catch a breath.

chest/lung area

the lungs and chest area is where most of the injury is done!!

Whooping cough can be deadly, but it is not very likely.

Whooping cough has four stages that partially overlap: incubation, catarrhal stage, paroxysmal stage, and convalescent stage.

The bacteria itself looks like a rather small, coccobacillus. Coccobacillus are rod-shaped bacteria. It is not perfectly round nor is it not very long. It reminds me of a small water melon in shape. B. pertussis, like most pathogenic bacteria, is Gram-negative.
If you mean what the disease looks like, a highly contagious disease which causes classic spasms (paroxysms) of uncontrollable coughing, followed by a high-pitched intake of breath that sounds like "whoop." The person cough so much and doesn't take in enough air that they have to try an do that 'whooping'.

No. The drug of choice is Erythromycin.

No it is not good

Whooping cough is a highly contagious bacterial disease caused by Bordetella pertussis.

Yea the whooping choung (Bordetella pertussis) as it is scientifically called is still in existance it it a respatory infection that causes vomiting spasams and shapr, shrill inhaling

i have a constant cough, the drs said i have asthma, but i wonder i f i really do

Neoterb, also named Terbutaline is a respiratory medicine used for asthma and other breathing issues. The common content is 1.5 mg / 5 ml.

It is caused by a bacterium, Bordatella pertussis.

Whooping cough also known as pertussis is a contagious disease that causes severe coughing. The bacteria that causes whooping cough is gram negative, and hides in the tissues of the human body.

so you've asked if whooping cough is fatal?

well for tiny babies it can lead to a fatal out come but for adults and children defiantly decreases.

the things people need to know about whooping cough is that it is highly contagious.

everyone mistakes whooping cough as a whooping or wheezy sound but in actual fact that sound is only common in new Born's or babies not children or adults, this is the reason it spreads because people just think its your average cough just lasting a long time.

another thing you need to know is that if you get antibiotics within the first week or so it then dramatically decreases the chance of it been passed on to another person. so go to you local GP as soon as possible.

and i know this because i have whooping cough and have seen almost seven doctors

also everyone that is around you also needs to go onto the same antibiotics

You know it girlfriend!

Could be anyone who thinks they have just had a bit of a cold. For instance I was lending a friend a DVD when another DVD dropped. Automatically we both bent down to pick it up and our heads got into close proximity. Unfortunately he was exhaling as I was inhaling and I got a lungful of his breath. Since then I have had an appalling cold with a runny nose and a severe hacking cough. This has gone on for over a week. Another of his friends has got something similar that has gone on for three months. Pure coincidence? I don't think so.

First of all, there are no great epidemics of whooping cough at present, so people do not worry about it very much, although the disease does still exist. And secondly, many people believe that vaccines are dangerous, and they would rather take their chances with whooping cough.

It has no vector, it is past from one person to another by the droplets from coughing and sneezing.

Yes. Having whooping cough doesn't give immunity against ever having it again.

We were up all night with a baby who has the whooping cough.

i don't know but i know lots of things about whooping cough