Pertussis

Bordetella pertussis is a bacterium that causes disease of the respiratory tract in humans, commonly known as whooping cough. Usually catarrhal symptoms occur within 7-20 days of contact with the pertussis bacterium. The disease typically develops in three stages:
 Catarrhal - Non specific symptoms similar to that of a common cold. Includes a sore throat, rhinorrhea and cough. this usually lasts for two weeks. 
 Spasmodic - Recurring coughing episodes that may result in facial discolouration and cyanosis. These coughing episodes are usually accompanied with deep inspiration (whooping) and vomiting. they occur more commonly during the night and can be triggered by external stimuli. Between coughing episodes there are usually few clinical…

Annually, about 195,000 deaths result from the estimated 16 million cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, worldwide. In the United States the numbers are significantly smaller due to the availability and development of the pertussis vaccine with an annual 10,000 to 40,000 reported cases and up to 20 deaths (Pertussis in Other Countries). Although a vaccine exists, there are still many cases of whooping cough and far more that go unreported. Precautions are being pushed onto infants all the way…

Infectious Disease: Pertussis Bria Walker University of Missouri-Kansas City Pertussis is an upper respiratory tract infectious disease, which is severely contagious. Also known as the whooping cough. Bordetella Pertussis is the known bacteria that causes the infection. This bacteria irritates the airway causing it to swell. The swelling of the airway presents in an uncontrollable cough and difficult breathing. Each deep breath that is taken, it is said that you can hear a whooping sound;…

Pertussis Pertussis is also known as the whooping cough has infected and killed many infants and young children under the age of one, it has also killed people older than one but that is very uncommon for people over the age of one to get the disease. In these paragraphs i will explain the background and description, the symptoms, influences on body, and cures and treatments for the disease. Pertussis, (whooping cough) mainly affects infants and young children under the age of one. Infants…

Pertussis (whooping cough) was endemic in Wisconsin for a significant long time, especially in the more populated southeastern region. Evidently, pertussis spoke to around 170 cases each year in the state and caused nearly nothing, separated groups in different regions. Before 2004, M and W zones (coterminously arranged inside the southeastern area) touched base at the midpoint of 34 and 15 pertussis cases for consistently, independently. In spite of the way that M and W areas were not affected,…

Bordetella pertussis is a very contagious disease in the upper respiratory system. It is known to cause whopping cough, or pertussis, an acute respiratory infection marked by spasmodic cough episodes. It is caused by the bacterium, Bordetella pertussis, and attaches to the lining of the airways, humans are its only host. It is characterized by fits of coughing that are so severe that you can’t stop or catch your breath. Although people of all ages can become infected with this disease, it is…

Name of Disease Pertussis, also commonly called Whooping Cough Description of Disease (taxonomic classification, and picture of pathogen Pertussis aka Whooping cough is a highly contagious respiratory disease caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis from the Betaproteobacteria class and Alcaligenaceae family Scientists have found eight species in the Bordetella genus, and of those eight, three of them are known to be pathogenic to humans. The most common are B. pertussis and B.…

Injecting these infants with a liquid cooked up in a lab by a greedy, self-centered scientist who has no real idea of what his or her so called “vaccine” does to a human body, is an ignorant decision. Nearly 100% of these children are required to receive these vaccines by state law in order to attend a public school. According to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, the very department that sets these requirements, the vaccines that each and every student must be administered are: DT, a…

When it was time for me to get my TDAP (tetanus, diphtheria and acellular pertussis) vaccine I was beyond nervous. I did everything I could to get out of it, but eventually my mom was able to drag me to the doctor’s office. I began to get highly anxious for what was to come as I was sitting on the not so comfortable bed in the immunization room. Time went by painfully slow as I waited for the nurse to come in with her tray of needles. Finally we heard a knock on the door and in came a short lady…

are very important and parents need to vaccinate their children. The number one reason that vaccines are important is because they save lives and protect against the spread of the disease. In 1974, Japan had a very successful pertussis vaccination program, with nearly eighty percent of Japanese children vaccinated(Center for Disease Control and Prevention). That year 393 cases of pertussis were reported in the entire country, and there were no deaths from pertussis(Center for Disease…