Male Speaker: If the kid has whooping cough do antibiotics get rid of it. And why do we use if it antibiotics if it does or doesn’t?
Michael Marcus: See the problem with whooping cough is once the cough begins and we've made a diagnosis have passed the point where antibiotics actually helps the child. If we happen to catch the child during the point where they just have their running nose and cold-like symptoms, we will have the child get better and avoid as per the whooping cough syndrome. However it's very rare that we are able to pick up the infection at that point of time.
Where the antibiotic does help is it prevents the child from skidding other children or other people in their environment that infection decreases the carrier state. So once the child starts to cough, we always give that child, and anybody else in the family who seems even a little bit sick, a specific group of antibiotics such as Erythromycin, Biaxin, or a Azithromycin in order to prevent other children from getting sick, and minimize the risk that anybody who maybe incubating the bacteria comes down with the full-fledge of disease.
Male Speaker: But most of the cases seem to be coming from the laid out in lesser and younger adult group, is that true?
Michael Marcus: Well, it seems that way now. We are seeing a spectrum but adolescents are the other ones that we started to pick it up, whether it's because vaccine they receive as the child is now wearing off because it wasn't does respond as the present vaccine or whether their vaccination didn't take well originally it's hard to be sure, but we do another that's a specially average population at this point of time.
Male Speaker: Thank you.
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