ASK THE DOCTORS
Dear Doctors: I’ve been seeing a lot of news stories about whooping cough. Is there really another illness that we need worry about? What is whooping cough, and how do you get it? What is the treatment?
I thought this was something that had pretty much gone away.
Dear Reader: Whooping cough is a highly contagious upper-respiratory infection. Also known as pertussis, it poses a particu…