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Whooping cough (/ ˈ h uː p ɪ ŋ / or / ˈ w uː p ɪ ŋ /), also known as pertussis or the 100-day cough, is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable bacterial disease. [1] [10] Initial symptoms are usually similar to those of the common cold with a runny nose, fever, and mild cough, but these are followed by two or three months of severe coughing fits. [1]
Kendrick and Eldering started a "cough plate diagnostic service" on November 1, 1932, whereby cough plates of suspected infected individuals could be sent in for confirmation. This also allowed them to determine the time period of infectivity of pertussis and when those infected were at highest risk of infecting others around them.
1926 – First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough) by Leila Denmark; 1932 – First vaccine for yellow fever by Max Theiler and Jean Laigret; 1937 – First vaccine for typhus by Rudolf Weigl, Ludwik Fleck and Hans Zinsser; 1937 – First vaccine for influenza by Anatol Smorodintsev [11] 1940 – First vaccine for anthrax
Pearl Louella Kendrick was born on August 24, 1890, in Wheaton, Illinois, US, and suffered from whooping cough as a young child. She graduated high school in 1908 and attended Greenville College for a year before transferring to Syracuse University. In 1914, she received her B.S. in zoology from Syracuse.
Whooping cough gets its name because people may make a high-pitched "whoop" sound when they inhale after a coughing fit. The coughing can be so bad that people vomit during or after the coughing ...
Alexander Wiseman MacAra was born on 4 May 1932 in Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland. [4] Both his father and grandfather were Church of Scotland Ministers. [5] Marion, his mother, was a civil servant. When he was six years old, MacAra was treated for paratyphoid fever, acute appendicitis and whooping cough. MacAra was educated at Irvine Royal ...
New CDC data shows whooping cough cases have increased five-fold over the past year, returning to pre-pandemic levels. Experts say missed routine immunizations during the COVID-19 pandemic may be ...
In the last 6 months of 1923, he became severely ill with whooping cough. As a result, on medical advice he was sent to Dover College, where the sea air would help lungs that were in a poor state. He was at the Junior school until 1928 and the senior school until 1932.