There you go. Get it buddy. But his mother says his spring times had been much different. He looked like he was sick, just worn out looking, like very tired looking, worn out, coughing all the time, just all day, all night. The two year old was one of 460 Idaho residents and thousands of Americans who caught whooping cough this spring.
Parents say the outbreak hit with a fury.
It happened very fast. The U.S. is in a peak phase for whooping cough, with almost 8,000 cases last year, twice the usual. Local outbreaks have occurred in Idaho, California, Ohio, and New York. The highly contagious respiratory tract infection, also known as pertussis, is spread by contact and marked by violent coughing spasms that can cause choking, brain damage, and death. Three hundred fifty thousand people die of the bacterial disease every year worldwide.