Pertussis is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease commonly referred to as “whooping cough.” Anyone can get pertussis, especially infants who are less than six months old and have not yet received the pertussis vaccine. Continued...

Clostridium difficile, also called C. difficile or “C-Diff,” are bacteria that live in the intestinal tract of five percent of healthy adults and 50 percent of healthy infants. Continued...