Stephen Aronoff, MD, MBA, Waldo E. Nelson Chair and Professor of Pediatrics at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, offered expert insight for an Everyday Health article about pertussis, also known as whooping cough. Whooping cough is a highly transmissible infection of the lungs and airways that mostly affects babies and young children and is on the rise in the United States.
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