Keeping Kids Healthy: Whooping Cough - It’s Back!

Does your child have a cough that just won’t go away? Even if it looks like the common cold, you need to pay close attention to it because it could be whooping cough. Whooping Cough?!? Couldn’t be! No one gets that anymore! Actually, whooping cough is a very serious respiratory infection that strikes up to twenty-five thousand people every year in the U.S! Even if you or your child have been vaccinated, you can both still be vulnerable – and in a baby, the disease can be fatal. Join Dr. Winnie King and her guests as we tell you how to recognize whooping cough; what to do about it; and why it’s on the rise once again.

Guests:

Jessica Pingitore, Age 16, Whooping Cough patient Lorraine Pingitore, Mother of Jessica Gracelyn Mansfield, Age 3, Whooping Cough patient when an infant Nancy and Brian Mansfield, Gracelyn’s Parents Margaret C. Fisher, MD, Infectious Disease Specialist; Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Monmouth Medical Center; Editor in Chief of Immunizations and Infectious Diseases, An Informed Parent’s Guide

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