The total number of cases in the same time frame from 2024 to 2025 have nearly doubled, rising from just over 5,000 to more ...

Whooping cough, or Bordetella pertussis, is a highly contagious bacterial infection that may ... do not include the age of those infected. The bacteria that causes whooping cough spreads person ...

Pertussis is a highly contagious respiratory disease caused by Bordetella ... based on killed whole bacteria and acellular vaccines (aPVs) based on one to five purified bacterial antigens.

FILE - This 2016 illustration provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, based on electron microscope imagery, depicts Bordetella pertussis bacteria ... Whooping cough, or pertussis, ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Whooping cough, a bacterial infection that ... themselves from the disease. What is pertussis and why is it dangerous? Pertussis is a vaccine-preventable disease caused by ...

is an acute bacterial respiratory infection caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis, characterized by severe bouts of spasmodic coughing followed by a "whoop" sound and vomiting, often ending ...