{"id":202470,"date":"2024-12-26T16:06:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T22:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/whooping-cough-cases-reach-highest-level-in-a-decade"},"modified":"2024-12-26T16:06:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T22:06:32","slug":"whooping-cough-cases-reach-highest-level-in-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/whooping-cough-cases-reach-highest-level-in-a-decade","title":{"rendered":"Whooping cough cases reach highest level in a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/whooping-cough-cases-reach-highest-level-in-a-decade.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t have time in between those coughs to take a breath,\u201d said Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at University of California, Davis, Children\u2019s Hospital. \u201cSometimes, if it\u2019s so severe, the kids end up being intubated or on a ventilator so that they can get oxygen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Infants are the most vulnerable to whooping cough, with the highest risk of getting infected and of serious complications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t have time in between those coughs to take a breath,\u201d said Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at University of California, Davis, Children\u2019s Hospital. \u201cSometimes, if it\u2019s so severe, the kids end up being intubated or on a ventilator so that they can get oxygen.\u201d Infants are the most vulnerable to whooping [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}