Whooping Cough: A Highly Contagious Disease

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Whooping Cough is a highly contagious disease that makes the person breath in rapidly, the affects of this disease is common cold, fever, runny nose, and mild cough. If this disease develops fast and dangerously it may even allow the person to cough so hard they vomit, in other words the more scientific name of this word is Bordetella Pertussis. This is also effective on dogs and other animals. It has three stages, Catarrh which is mucus that injures the membranes of the nose and mouth, paroxysmal is an outburst of emotion or action, convalescent which is recovering from that disease.
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The most affected place as of 2004 was Africa it had a population

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