Whooping+Cough

==== By: Olivia Labine, Bryce Beaten, Eric Heim, and Brent Perrault

__**The History of the Whooping Cough**__
By: Eric Heim The whooping cough is also called Pertussis. The whooping cough is named because of its high pitched noises that it makes. In the 1950's to 1970's the number of cases that were recorded was declining sharply in the United States in many other countries. These changes lead to new vaccinations to help prevent Pertussis. In the 1980's the young childern who were vaccinated were not reacting to stoping the vaccine. Since the vaccines were declined in the middle 1980's the number of cases almost tripled since the recent

**__Whooping Cough Symptoms__** By: Brent Perrault

__**Where is Whooping Cough Prevalent**__ By: Brent Perrault There was a recent out-break of whooping cough in Appleton East, and there was a few cases of whooping cough last year is Pulaski, This means thaat whooping cough is prevalent in Wisconsin, and that leads to whooping cough being prevalent in the U.S. Whooping cough is prevalent in France but does'nt effect children between the ages of 2 years old to 8 years old. There has also been rescent outbreaks in France. I could not find the data telling me if it's prevalent in other countries, but with my better judgment I would have to say it is. __** How Whoping Cough is Transmitted **__
 * **Stage 1 - Catarrhal Stage**
 * For 2 weeks victim experiences common cold[[image:http://www.homeremediesfor.net/images/home-remedies-runny-nose.jpg width="122" height="169" align="right" caption="Runny Nose"]]
 * Troubles breathing caused by increase of mucus and inflammation of throat(swelling)
 * High fever and highly contagious
 * Spreads through spray of bacteria-filled droplets from nose and mouth
 * Stage 2 – Paroxysmal Stage
 * Violent coughing at night then eventually both night and day
 * Victims spit up large globs of mucus after coughing raids
 * Infants can swallow the mucus causing them to puke, which then causes dehydration and weight loss
 * Stage 3 - Convalescent Stage
 * Coughing, mucus, spit-up and vomitting begin to lesson
 * The victim of whooping cough gradually gets better and returns to normal health

The highly contagious bacterial disease Whooping Cough is caused by a bacterium called //**Bordetella Pertussis**.// The disease is spread when the infected person coughs or sneezes. The bacterium affects the host by going in the respitory system. It destroys the thin hairs used to filter harmful particles as you breathe.

== =__Treatment__= __ By:Bryce Baeten __ For infants they should get pneumococcal, that is given to them because they have a weak immune system and bacteria targets that first. For older people symptoms will just go away and it will go out of the system. Treatments have gotten a lot better since 2006. It takes about a week for it to go away. If it the very bad Doctors will use antibiotics to limit cough and stop preventions. == =__Prevention__= There is a vaccines that cause the whooping cough.

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