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Pertussis is a respiratory disease caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. It is airborne, highly contagious, and responsible for an annual 18 million illnesses and 250,000 deaths worldwide. Globally, pertussis is one of the leading causes of death for children under 5 years old. In the United States, the annual number of pertussis cases has been increasing since the early 1980s. Despite ...