Lane Tech High School in Chicago reports five cases of whooping cough across three grades amid a national increase in ...

Pneumonia is a lung infection and/or inflammation of the air sacs of one or both lungs. Bacteria, viruses, and fungi can ...

The illness also causes people to make a “whoop” sound when coughing. The federal health ... immune systems and those with mild to severe asthma are most at risk of the illness, though it ...

and perform a physical exam, during which they will look inside your nose and listen to your heart and lung sounds with a stethoscope ... and chronic cough in adults. UpToDate. Lai K, Shen H, Zhou X, ...

such as weakened immune systems or asthma, are also at a high risk of severe illness if they get infected. A vaccination is available for whooping cough, and ADH said that is the best way to ...

While symptoms can be a very mild cough for adults, the whooping cough has the potential to do real damage to children. Spokane’s outbreak is part of a nationwide wave cresting in the Pacific ...

they can progress to severe coughing fits that can last up to 10 weeks and may produce a high-pitched “whoop” sound when patients struggle to breathe. Babies younger than a year old are at ...

Coughing in very young children may produce a whooping sound ... or longer. Adults, teens and vaccinated children often have milder symptoms that may be confused with bronchitis or asthma.

Whooping cough is also making a significant appearance ... department data shows much lower walking pneumonia levels for adults. However, Dr. Erik Berg, interim medical director of the county ...

Bill, who turns 60 in January, has always enjoyed good health despite having asthma ... adults,” he says. “But someone from our holiday to Indonesia had been diagnosed with whooping cough ...