Whooping cough outbreak primarily affects teens
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NEW YORK  - In a 2003-2004 outbreak of whooping cough in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, most cases were diagnosed in adolescents, although adults had more severe disease, public health officials report in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine for January.
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MIANCHI, China -- Twice a week, just after school lets out in this small county in Henan province, a 13-year-old girl with a short bob and wide smile holds her parents' hands and walks two blocks down the street into the harsh fluorescent light of an emergency medical station.
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Following two cases of suspected whooping cough at Lincoln Elementary School in Simpson County, the Barren County District Health Department has issued a medical advisory for the school.
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KAMPUNG PASIR PEKAN, Malaysia  - A teenager from  the village at the center of a bird flu outbreak has been  hospitalized with cold symptoms, Malaysia's health minister  said on Friday, as poultry farmers counted their losses.
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A 13-year-old boy is in intensive care  following a severe adverse reaction to a vaccination at school.
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Health authorities in Hong Kong are investigating the outbreak of a mysterious respiratory illness in a hospital that has infected 28 children.
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A 16-year-old girl from southern Vietnam has become infected with the bird flu strain that killed 32 people earlier this year and devastated the poultry industry across Asia, a doctor said Thursday.
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A hidden epidemic is gaining momentum in America, experts say. Children as young as fourth-graders are deliberately inhaling the fumes of dangerous chemicals from a variety of household and office products.
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Cases of whooping cough in Arizona&#39;s most populated county have nearly doubled so far this year compared with last year at this time, according to the Maricopa County Department of Public Health.
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Dec 30, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - A 16-year-old girl in southern Vietnam is seriously ill with H5N1 avian influenza, according to reports from the World Health Organization (WHO) and news services today.
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A teenage girl has become the first known person to survive rabies without a vaccination, say doctors. A team at the Children&#39;s Hospital of Wisconsin used an experimental treatment on 15-year-old Jeanna Giese.
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A John Young Middle School student is the 17th person in St. Joseph County to be diagnosed with whooping cough this year. Wayne Staggs, an epidemiologist with the Indiana State Department of Health, said St.
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A 15-year-old girl has become the first person to survive rabies without prior vaccination. Jeanna Giese, who had been in a grave condition and on a ventilator for a month, is now in an intermediate care unit for intensive rehabilitation.
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WASHINGTON - Closing schools, restricting travel and rationing scarce medications may be the nation's first protections if a powerful new flu strain spurs a worldwide outbreak because it will take months to brew a vaccine, say government preparations for the next pandemic.    Specialists say it's only a matter of time before the next one strikes, and concern is rising that the recurring bird flu in Asia could be the trigger since it is mutating in a way that lets it spread easily among people...
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After several years under the public health radar, whooping cough is making a comeback in New York. The number of New Yorkers affected by the highly contagious respiratory illness
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(HealthDay News) -- Whooping cough, also called pertussis, is a bacterial respiratory infection that's often characterized by a &quot;whoop&quot; sound when the person breathes.
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Approximately 10,000 cases of whooping cough, or pertussis, were reported to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2003.