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You do everything to protect your little one.
But what about yourself?
Adults and adolescents can get whooping cough.
Help prevent it with the Adacel® vaccine.
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WHAT IS PERTUSSIS?
Also known as whooping cough, pertussis is a respiratory tract infection that spreads easily through coughing and sneezing.
Pertussis may start out with symptoms similar to bronchitis or the common cold: runny nose, sneezing and low-grade fever.
The infection turns into a series of severe coughing spells that can continue over a period of 6 to 12 weeks.
In older children and adults, the disease is less severe. However, infants tend to have
complications from pertussis. Some of them include: vomiting after a coughing spell,
weight loss, breathing problems, choking spells, pneumonia, convulsions, brain damage and, in rare cases, death.
Vaccines have helped prevent pertussis in the age groups that have received them.
The biggest increases in reported pertussis cases have been in infants too young to begin their routine immunizations, and in adolescents and adults.
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