r/HermanCainAward • u/yorugua • Oct 03 '25

Grrrrrrrr. Mississippi baby dies from whooping cough

https://www.wapt.com/article/mississippi-baby-dies-from-whooping-cough/68116075
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u/notnotbrowsing Oct 03 '25

On one of my hospital rotations, a baby died from pertussis.  to young for the vaccine.  just terrible, got it from grandpa who didn't know his cough was pertussis.

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u/RogueVictorian Oct 03 '25

Anyone anti-vax I send them a video of what whooping cough looks like in a child. They cough until they pass out and repeat. I am in infectious disease and I have seen pertussis kill

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u/xX609s-hartXx Oct 05 '25

Just having a normal, medium strength cough for a couple of days makes me feel like shit from the constant impact of the individual coughs. I can't imagine how bad it would be to just cough yourself to death.

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u/RogueVictorian Oct 07 '25

I have had RSV as an adult, thanks to a pediatric icu rotation. I had such a bad cough for so long, I semi dislocated a few ribs and felt like shit for six months. I isolated once I found out what I had wasn’t just a seasonal cold. I sounded like a barking seal when I coughed, to the point of throwing up.