Tag: cough disease

Whooping cough (pertussis) is a highly contagious disease caused by a bacterium called Bordetella pertussis. This bacterium attaches to the tiny, hair-like projections lining a part of the upper respiratory ...

Pearl Kendrick and Grace Eldering worked tirelessly overnight in a dilapidated facility with scant funding, all in the effort to develop a vaccine for whooping cough to protect children.The two ...