Is This Whooping-cough?

Care of children in general practice.

“…A few years later I went into general practice. It was even more difficult to confirm pertussis bacteriologically, and no longer did all the children who whooped have an abnormal white blood cell count.3 4 The recent epidemic of pertussis further emphasised this diagnostic problem, particularly as some younger doctors had never seen a child with whooping cough.…”