Whooping Cough

: Whooping Cough

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Acquisition of Disease

Symptoms : Physical /Psychological

Treatments

Application of Disease to class (human anatomy and physiology

in relation to Pertussis or `whopping cough ' is an infection usually caused by the bacteria Bordetella pertussis (and less frequently by B . parapertussis resulting in an acute (short-term ) febrile (feverish ) illness of the respiratory system (James D . Cherry . 1998 , pp . 1423 . The condition more frequently occurs in children (90 of all cases ) than adults (less

than 10 of all cases . Children below the age of 5 years are usually affected (A .D .M . Bryceson . 1996 , pp . 121 . B . Pertussis and B Parapertussis causes infection in all mammals , and B . bronchiseptica usually causes severe infection in animals , and rarely infects man . B bronchiseptica organism may have given rise to the whopping cough causative organisms (Dimitri A Diavatopoulos . 2005

G de Baillou first described the condition of whooping cough in 1578 during an epidemic that hit the city of Paris . Bordet and Gengou identified the disease-causing organism in the year 1906 . Eldering and Kendrick identified that B . Parapertussis could also result in the symptoms and signs of whooping cough in he 1930 's . Once the bacteria responsible for causing Pertussis were identified , it was easy to prepare a vaccine against the bacteria . Madsen was able to produce the first effective vaccine against Pertussis in the year 1925 . The vaccine preparing process became standardized only in the year 1947 . The British Medical Council conducted several trials to demonstrate the safety and the efficacy of the vaccine for use in children in the 1940 's and 1950 's . Many nations across the world have adopted pediatric immunizing against Pertussis along with diphtheria and tetanus . DTP was introduced in the year 1949 . The Pertussis vaccine is usually marked in international units (IU ) suggesting use of mouse weight gain test and mouse protection test . In the 1970 's several European countries and Japan had expressed concern over the use of the traditional vaccine in infants and children as it caused a number of severe side-effects . They shifted to using acellular vaccines . Pertussis vaccine is available along with diphtheria and tetanus , or a single vaccine (James D . Cherry 1998 , pp . 1423-1424 . The effectiveness of the Pertussis vaccine frequently reduced following poor storage condition , improper administration , variations in the immunizations schedules , etc . The child being vaccinated may develop several side-effects . The milder side-effects usually occur frequently , whereas the more serious ones rarely occur . A study was conducted to determine which component of the DTP vaccine that was responsible for the side-effects . Studies showed that the ill-effects usually arose from the Pertussis component . Some of the common side-effects included fever , redness at the site irritability , drowsiness , vomiting , loss of appetite , pain , developing an unusual cry , etc . The more serious side-effects such as seizures shock , collapse , severe allergic reactions , neurological disease (destructive encephalopathy , infantile spasm , and permanent brain damage , death , etc , occurred less frequently (James D...