Pertussis: Adults can fall severely ill too
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 10:14
in Health & Medicine
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 infection can be greatly reduced by vaccination, as Marion Riffelmann of the Krefeld Institute for Infectious Diseases and her colleagues report in the current Deutsches Aerzteblatt International...