Ep 44 Pertussis: Whoop Here It Is
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The History of Pertussis
Most historical reviews that I read of Pertussis say that the first definitive or most likely definitive epidemic of the disease happened in 1578 in Paris. The physician who wrote about this epidemic called the disease kinta or kintenetussis, probably to indicate that the severe coughing fits occurred every four or five hours. And he noted that it occurred mostly in children between the ages of four and 10 with a violent cough that ended in vomiting, cyanosis and often death. In an ancient Chinese medicine treatise dating back to the 600s, there is mention of something called the 100 day cough, which is the colloquial name for Pertussedis in China today.
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