The best thing that people can do to prevent the spread of respiratory droplets, isolate the child who is coughing. The best way to prevent the fecal oral route of transmission is careful hand ...

but to protect others who may be very susceptible to whooping cough, and that's particularly children and infants. Adults who are working with kids who are, particularly, in school settings and ...

I heard [coughing sound] from Jolie, and I was like, ‘Oh, s---. Here we go.’ And then one hundred and four fevers later, all three kids were sick.” She then confirmed that the children had ...

Whooping cough is a highly contagious respiratory ... from work or school to avoid infecting others, and if your children are sick, do not send them to school, health department advises.

Partially immunized children and older people may have ... recommend people continue receiving whooping cough vaccines even after getting sick once. People who have whooping cough, or even those ...

And I was sick for almost three months ... when a pertussis vaccine was developed, about 9,000 U.S. children died of whooping cough every year. Nowadays, up to 20 babies die each year from ...

Measles symptoms resemble other common childhood illnesses, but occur all together. Early symptoms include a relentless cough, runny nose, and red, puffy eyes similar to conjunctivitis or pink eye.

Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a bacteria-caused respiratory ... cover their coughs and stay home when feeling sick. If a child has been diagnosed with pertussis or shows symptoms, parents ...