The Communicable Disease: Pertussis

Infections: whooping cough in pertussis is a very contagious disease. It is also known as a cough of whooping cough. Whooping cough has become an important public health problem for more than 10 years. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the number of cases of pertussis reported in the United States has increased since the 1980s (2011a). Three to fifty million cases of pertussis occur every year around the world, and approximately 300,000 people have died (CDC, 2011a). Public health nurses play an important role in restricting the spread of disease outbreaks through education and ensuring appropriate treatment of communities.

In 1900, the three major causes of death worldwide were influenza / pneumonia, tuberculosis and diarrhea / enteritis. These account for about 60% of all deaths. Malaria, measles, whooping cough (whooping cough), syphilis, hepatitis B and other infectious diseases are also important causes. Heart disease was ranked fourth in 1900 and cancer was ranked eighth until the cause of death. Since the 1940's, most deaths are caused by heart disease, cancer and other lifestyle diseases. By the end of the 1990s, lifestyle diseases (degenerative diseases) such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, various types of cancer accounted for more than 70% of all deaths.

Pertussis or whooping cough is a highly infectious aerial bacterial disease caused by Bordetella pertussis. People may get sick by coughing or sneezing. About 16 million people worldwide are infected with this disease every year. The number of deaths from this disease decreased from 138,000 in 1990 to 60,000 in 2013. Mumps or mumps are viral diseases caused by mumps virus. It is highly contagious and the virus diffuses by touching the respiratory secretions of infected people. It may be transmitted from people to people by coughing or laughing. People infected with the virus may spread the disease to healthy people about three days before the onset of the symptoms and about 5 days after the swelling of the salivary glands. The mortality rate of mumps is low, the total mortality rate is 1 in 10,000 cases.

Infectious diseases and infections are not uncommon among school-aged children. Communication means can be easily sent to others. Therefore, if students are suspected of having infectious diseases (or infectious diseases), it is necessary to send students to their homes. Several diseases spread easily among students are varicella, measles, mumps, parvovirus, tuberculosis, hepatitis, fifth disease, exanthema, mononucleosis, sputum, sexually transmitted diseases, gastroenteritis, influenza is. , Pertussis, etc. Refer to the school district policy on exclusion from the school and use the following checklist to make judgment to help the clinic staff to decide whether to exclude the students from school please. The list of symptoms and signs below may indicate the possibility of infection. If the symptoms indicate a possible process of infection, please contact the parent and send the student home for further medical follow-up.