Whooping cough is an communicable bacterial disease that causes out of control coughing. The name comes from the noise you make when you take a gasp after you cough. You may have choking spells or may cough so hard that you heave.
Anyone can get whooping cough, but it is more general in infants and children. It's especially dangerous in infants. The coughing spells can be so bad that it is hard for infant to eat, drink or breathe.
Before there was a vaccine, whooping cough was one of the most ordinary childhood disease and a major cause of childhood deaths in the U.S. There are fewer luggage today because there are both pertussis-only vaccines and mixture vaccines for tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis. If you have whooping cough, action with antibiotics may help if given early.
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