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Pertussis
* affects people all over the world and can occur at any age.
* bacterial infection of the respiratory tract.
* begins as a mild respiratory infection
  - upper respiratory infection
* can also cause pneumonia, long-lasting bronchitis, seizures, brain damage, and death.
* can be quite serious, it can cause pneumonia and seizures
  - severe, particularly in the very young, and often requires hospitalization
* can cause lung problems, seizures, brain damage and death
  - pneumonia, seizures, brain damage and even death
* can cause serious complications
  - illness, especially in young infants
  - or even fatal complications
* can cause spells of coughing and choking that make it hard to eat, drink, or breathe
  - violent coughing and choking, making it hard to breathe, drink or eat
  - lead to pneumonia, seizures, brain damage, and sometimes death
* can occur at any age, but is most common in children in the first year of life
* causes coughing spells so bad that it is hard for infants to eat, drink, or breathe
  - long spasms of coughing that can bring up plugs of thick mucus
  - violent coughing attacks which can lead to suffocation
* contagious disease caused by a bacterium
  - that is easily spread in close living quarters
* contagious, bacterial respiratory disease.
* continues to be a problem in the United States.
* frequent cause of prolonged cough illness in adults and adolescents.
* highly contagious respiratory disease.
* is endemic and there is an ongoing risk for exposure for all ages
  - throughout the world
  - highly communicable and transmission usually occurs by the respiratory route
* is highly contagious and spread to others through coughing and sneezing
  - with symptoms that can linger six to ten weeks
  - contagious, spread easily through the air by talking, sneezing or coughing
* is most dangerous to babies under one year old
  - severe in young infants, who experience complications more frequently than adults
  - primarily a toxin-mediated disease
* is spread by the cough, saliva or mucus of a person who has it
  - easily from person to person
  - from person to person through the air
* is spread through respiratory droplets when an infected person coughs, sneezes or talks
  - the air after an infected person coughs or sneezes
  - usually a disease of children although it can occur at any age
* major problem in Australia.
* notifiable disease.
* occurs most often in late summer and fall
  - worldwide
* often begins gradually with cold-like symptoms and an irritating cough.
* potentially serious vaccine-preventable disease.
* produces a cough that is characteristic of the infection.
* provides a useful paradigm for a special type of reactive airway disease.
* remains a severe disease for a substantial proportion of affected children.
* serious childhood disease that is prevented by immunization.
* spreads easily from infected person to others through coughing or sneezing.
* spreads very easily from infected person to others through coughing or sneezing
  - person to person in the same household or day nursery
* starts like a cold with symptoms of runny nose and an irritating cough.
* very contagious disease of the mucous membranes that line the air passages.

### condition | illness | disease | communicable disease | infectious disease | pertussis:

Pertussis vaccination
* increases the risk of asthma.
* provides only temporary protection against the whooping cough.