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It really depends on how long the whooping cough goes untreated as to how much damage it does. With modern medicine, it is usually caught quickly, but sometimes it is misdiagnosed and slips by.

When left untreated it can cause a variety of problems, the main being a deep gasping cough.

Also:

  • pneumonia
  • ear infections
  • loss of appetite
  • seizures
  • difficulty breathing
  • death

After whooping cough has been treated and the patient is no longer infected, the cough can remain for many weeks after.

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10y ago

The survival rate of Whooping Cough is just over 50 percent. This is because many people who contract it are too young to fight it off.

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14y ago

Just under 1% of all cases of whooping cough cause death. Children who die of whooping cough usually have one or more of the following three conditions present:

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11y ago

why do ya need to know. the only people who would are medical people and they should already know, they should not be looking for it on the internet ya noobs.

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14y ago

very common

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