Whooping cough is also known as pertussis and is a disease caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. Whooping cough is a highly contagious respiratory infection that can cause serious problems to both babies and children. Whooping cough is spread primarily by person to person contact. Whooping cough generally effects around between 10-90 million people per year and causes around 500,000 deaths per year.

Symptoms

Asthma is a chronic lung disease characterized by symptoms such as difficulty breathing (due to airflow obstruction) and inflammation. The prevalence of asthma has increased rapidly since the early eighties with an estimated 1 in 4 children being effected by asthma in the years after 2000. Asthma effects different people in different ways with some people having regular aggressive asthma attacks, whilst others experience milder and more infrequent symptoms.

Asthma Symptoms

Swine flu is a virus known to have it’s origins from pigs. Swine flu (also known as swine influenza) has recently mutated to a form that can pass from human to human, which has resulted in a fear of a full blown pandemic.

SYMPTOMS OF SWINE FLU

Swine flu symptoms are similar to the symptoms of other human flu’s. Fever, cough, body aches and soreness, sore throat, headaches, fatigue, runny nose and chills are also symptoms of swine flu. Vomiting and diarrhea have also been some symptoms of swine flu in certain victims.

The common cold is also known as acute viral rhinopharyngitis or acute coryza. It is a infectious respiratory disease that is the most common infectious disease experienced by humans.

Symptoms Of Common Cold

The symptoms can include a runny nose, sore throat, nasal congestion, coughing, spluttering and sneezing. Sufferers can also experience further common cold symptoms such as feeling run down, muscle aches and cramps, fatigue, headaches and shivering.

Period Of Illness

A pneumothorax is what is commonly known as a collapsed lung. A pneumothorax is caused by the accumulation of air in the pleural cavity. A pneumothorax can occur in a few different ways.

A pneumothorax can strike at any time. It especially effects young, tall and thin males. Pneumothorax can also occur due to disease, infections, cancers, lung infections and more.