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Prevention recommendations. CDC recommends vaccination and postexposure antimicrobial prophylaxis to prevent pertussis. Specific guidance includes: Postexposure antimicrobial prophylaxis. Vaccine recommendations: DTaP, Tdap, and Td.
17 Οκτ 2024 · Whooping Cough Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, can cause serious illness in people of all ages but is most dangerous for babies. View All
Pertussis Globally. Whooping Cough. Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, can cause serious illness in people of all ages but is most dangerous for babies. View All. For Everyone. CDC provides information on pertussis for the public, healthcare providers, and others.
12 Οκτ 2018 · For adult patients complaining of acute cough (< 3 weeks in duration) or subacute cough (3-8 weeks), we suggest that clinicians should specifically assess for the 4 key characteristics of paroxysmal cough, post-tussive vomiting, inspiratory whooping, and absence of fever in ruling in or out a clinical diagnosis of pertussis.
Whooping cough is a serious disease that vaccines can help prevent. It was thought to be a disease of the past, but it’s making a comeback, with the most cases CDC has seen in 60 years. Since 2010, between 10,000 and 50,000 cases of whooping cough are reported each year in the United States.
Pertussis, or whooping cough, a bacterial respiratory infection caused by Bordetella pertussis, is typically characterized by paroxysms of coughing with a whooping sound during inhalation. In Australia, pertussis is one of the least well-controlled vaccine-preventable diseases (1).
Whooping cough is caused by the Bordetella pertussis bacterium and spreads through droplets when infected people cough and sneeze. The CDC estimates that about 80% of people with no immunity will get whooping cough if exposed to an infected person.
