Is "whooping cough" viral? if it is, is there a lysogenic or just a lytic cycle?

Yes, if you don't go to the doctor it can kill you.

Whooping cough, or pertussis, can be serious in anybody. It used to be called the hundred-day cough, so there's an idea. The main concern is that the distinctive barking cough is so overwh...

See your doctor. I think there is a shot you will have to get.

Whooping cough is a highly contagious bacterial infection of the upper respiratory system鈥攕pecifically, the area where the nasal passages meet the back of the throat .The infection causes irritatio...

Yes, it's possible. The immunity one gets from infection with Bordetella pertussis, the causative agent for whooping cough, varies widely from person to person. Furthermore, immunity wanes ove...

Whooping cough is still around in spite of the immunizations. The sound of the cough is distinctive. Once you hear it, you will never forget it.

Pertussis was recognizably described as early as 1578 by Guillaume de Baillou (1538-1616), but earlier reports date back at least to the 12th century. B. pertussis was isolated in pure culture in 1...

yes it does, also this is true of any vaccine as strains of virus and infectious disease mutate through time to be resilant to anti-biotics. the most classic example of this is the flu, although on...