Pertussis

Kinkhaust or Hooping Cough or Dog Bark or Chin Cough or Kinkhost or Kincough or Kinkcough or Whooping cough; mainly affects infants and young children; caused by a bacterium, it is characterized by paroxysms of coughing that end with the characteristic whoop as air is inhaled

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