Whooping Cough. Its Treatment with Vaccine

Whooping-Cough *

Following the isolation of the pertussis bacillus by Bordet and Gengou' in 1906, anticipation of methods of control of whoopingcough was inevitable. This discovery gave impetus to experimental and clinical investigations on various aspects of the whooping-cough problem. The isolation of the apparent causative agent, the introduction of new bacteriologic aids in early diagnosis, the transmission...

Treatment of whooping cough: the facts.

Symptomatic treatment of the cough in whooping cough.

BACKGROUND Around 16 million cases of whooping cough (pertussis) occur worldwide each year, mostly in low-income countries. Much of the morbidity of whooping cough in children and adults is due to the effects of the paroxysmal cough. Cough treatments proposed include corticosteroids, beta2-adrenergic agonists, pertussis-specific immunoglobulin, antihistamines and possibly leukotriene receptor a...

Imperfect vaccine-induced immunity and whooping cough transmission to infants.

Whooping cough, caused by B. pertussis and B. parapertussis, has increased in incidence throughout much of the developed world since the 1980s despite high vaccine coverage, causing an increased risk of infection in infants who have substantial disease-induced mortality. Duration of immunity and epidemically significant routes of transmission across age groups remain unclear and deserve further...

The Treatment of Pertussis (Whooping Cough) With Chinese Herbal Medicine

Pertussis (whooping cough) is aptly called “The Hundred Day Cough” (bai re ke) in Chinese medicine. Vaccinations against pertussis contained in the DPT (diphtheriapertussis-tetanus) shot have reduced the incidence in the United States significantly, but parental rejection of the vaccination has resulted in a reemergence of the illness throughout the country. Both my city and state, Boulder, Col...