Ten year old Lauren Burnell and her mother talk about her experience of whooping cough. The disease is very dangerous for newborn babies, but older children and adults can also get whooping cough. Symptoms can last for a long time and be extremely unpleasant and disabling. Older children and adults can also pass whooping cough on to babies, who are at much higher risk from the disease. For more information, see vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/pertussis-whoo....