TUBERCULOSIS is an infectious and deadly disease which usually
affects the lungs.
Typical symptoms are a chronic cough, fever, night sweats and
weight loss.
It is spread through the air and treatment involves prevention
through vaccination, or a long course of antibiotics.
Whooping cough, formally called pertussis, is also contagious and
takes its name from its characteristic severe hacking cough followed by
an intake of breath.
It can cause death but this is rare and usually occurs in the case
of infants who have not been vaccinated.
Vaccines are routine in the UK and most deaths from whooping cough
occur in developing countries.
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