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How does whooping cough - bordetella pertussis - enter your body and what does it do?
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Persistent cough: It is an airborne disease that you acquire from someone else and it is highly contageous. It can result with a persistent cough that may last weeks, even after treatment with antibiotics. The cough is incapacitating.
Answered 2/24/2018
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