Pertussis | Whooping cough | Contagious respiratory infection
Pertussis or Whooping cough which is highly considered as contagious respiratory tract infection. In many people with this whooping cough can be marked by a severe cough which is followed by a high pitched inhaling of breath which usually sounds like “whoop”. This cough is called Whooping cough. Before the vaccination was identified, whooping cough will be considered as a childhood disease. Nowadays, whooping cough majorly affects your children who are too young under the age of 12 months need to complete the full vaccination doses and people like teens and adults whose immunity levels have faded. In some rare cases, whooping cough leads to death but it mostly occurs in infants. Hence, it is very important for pregnant women and people, especially those who have close contact with infants, to be vaccinated against whooping cough. Symptoms Once you are infected with whooping cough, usually it takes almost 7 to 10 days for signs to appear although it takes a longer period. Usually ...