Chapter 19, Problem 17Q

Summary Introduction

To determine:

Whether a healthy mother is responsible for her baby being in the ICU with a whooping cough.

Introduction:

A whooping cough is a communicable respiratory infection. In a whooping cough, cold-like symptoms appear. Pertussis is the highly contagious respiratory infection caused by Bordetella pertussis. In pertussis, symptoms like running nose, fever and cough appear.