... say staff members and some patients at a Veterans Affairs hospital are getting preventive treatment for whooping cough after an outbreak was traced to several workers at an outpatient clinic....
... effective way of preventing the fatal form of whooping cough in young infants, say a group of paediatric ... presented to hospital with a five-day history of cough, runny nose and difficulty feeding. Both ...
... for parents of new babies and other household members may be the most effective way of preventing the fatal form of whooping cough in young infants, say a group of pediatric intensive care doctors.
TOKYO, March 24 (UPI) -- Whooping cough is on the rise in Japan, with 775 cases reported already this year, health officials said.
... models to explore various scenarios and compared the predictions generated by those models to data on whooping cough incidence.
The researchers constructed two different models based on assumptions ...
Immunity to whooping cough lasts at least 30 years on average, much longer than previously thought, according to a new study.
... -preventable infections like measles, mumps and whooping cough in the United States, and measles and polio ... reactions include hives, swelling, wheezing, coughing, low blood pressure, vomiting, diarrhea ...
... cases, not just what's happening in the most severe," King said.
The researchers are using similar models to explore patterns seen in other infectious diseases, such as malaria and whooping cough.
... frequent fatal infectious disease in newborns. Nevertheless, the number of reported attacks of whooping cough in schoolchildren, adolescents and adults has markedly increased in recent years. Roughly ...
Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is not just a childhood disease. The pathogen Bordetella pertussis is highly infectious and an infection may occur at any age. The risk of a pertussis ...
... or infants too young to be vaccinated.
While there is no lifelong protection against whooping cough, immunization is the best preventative measure. Current recommendations suggest five doses of the ...
An underreported, often misdiagnosed disease that people think affects only young children is drawing concern from national health officials and has recently struck hospital workers, closed schools ...
... and this particular bacterial infection also exists with other bacterial infections, such as pertussis (whooping cough), and the connection between asthma and other non-infectious diseases, such as ...
... ), Legionella pneumophila (which causes Legionnaires' disease), and Bordetella pertussis (which causes whooping cough).
Now, in a paper published in the journal Science, scientists from the Institute ...
... those of their written records. The tests for diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), tetanus, polio, measles, and hepatitis B immunity rates ranged from 58.3 percent to 94.6 ...
