{"id":22445,"date":"2024-04-13T04:56:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T23:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22445"},"modified":"2025-10-10T12:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T07:18:18","slug":"whooping-cough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/whooping-cough\/","title":{"rendered":"Whooping Cough"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Whooping Cough<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a highly contagious infection which impacts the respiratory tract and is caused by <strong>Bordetella pertussis <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/bacteria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">bacteria<\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It gets its name from the &#8220;whooping&#8221; sound which the patient experiences while coughing.<\/li>\n<li>It is particularly <strong>severe in infants<\/strong> and in case of complications may lead to pneumonia and even death.<\/li>\n<li><strong>How does whooping cough spread?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>A person catches this <strong>bacteria via droplets<\/strong> when an infected person coughs or sneezes.<\/li>\n<li>It attaches itself to the throat lining and then produces toxins which damage hair-like projections which clear debris and mucus.<\/li>\n<li>This leads to <strong>inflammation in the airways<\/strong> and causes severe coughing fits. It also then leads to difficulty in breathing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Symptoms<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It begins with cold-like symptoms accompanied with low-grade fever. As it progresses, cough get accompanied with &#8220;whooping&#8221; sound and these spells may last for a while leading to vomiting.<\/li>\n<li>Sleep apnea in children.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>T<strong>reatment:<\/strong> Diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTaP) vaccines.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>\u00a0Q1) What is a Vaccine?\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>A preparation that is used to stimulate the body&#8217;s immune response against diseases. Vaccines are usually administered through needle injections, but some can be administered by mouth or sprayed into the nose.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/news\/trends\/whooping-cough-outbreak-all-you-need-to-know-about-symptoms-and-how-to-stay-safe-11712914228185.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Whooping cough outbreak: All you need to know about symptoms and how to stay safe<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whooping Cough is a highly contagious infection which impacts the respiratory tract and is caused by Bordetella pertussis bacteria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}