Whooping cough is a highly contagious respiratory illness that's rapidly rising in cases. Newborns are most at risk.

According to the state health department website cases are up by 186 percent. The infection, also called Pertussis, can be ...

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Pertussis is the scientific name and whooping cough is the common name for this disease. And the reason is because people can cough and cough and cough and you do this really long ...

Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a bacterial infection that can cause painful coughing fits and difficulty breathing. Cases ...

A week or two later, coughing fits marked by the "whoop" noise people make when gasping for air afterward begin, which can cause difficulty sleeping and breathing, vomiting, fatigue and even fractured ...

A LOW GRADE FEVER, AND MILD COUGHS. HOWEVER, AFTER A COUPLE WEEKS, THAT MILD COUGH MAY TURN SEVERE. PEOPLE HAVE COUGHED SO HARD THEY’VE ACTUALLY BROKEN RIBS WITH PERTUSSIS, SO DEFINITELY THAT ...

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