No results today.. Whooping cough at large?

Well it's been a stressful wait for today and the results of CT scan. Especially in light of the cough and asthma type symptoms I've been having. However Doctor D'Souza did not have the written report from the radiologist. He said he had looked at the scan himself and could see no areas of concern but he wanted to be sure before giving me the all clear. He said there were a few lymph nodes in my mediastinum that were probably normal but again he wasn't 100% sure.

The end result is another few days in limbo until he can discuss the scan and get back to me on Monday afternoon.

In my hunt for other possible causes of a persistent cough I've come up with an interesting theory...
In that there appears to be a relatively unreported outbreak of whooping cough (Pertussis) out there at the moment. So many people have commented to me that they have a cough that won't go away and has been with them for up to six weeks. I did some hunting on the internet and found a few local cases where people have insisted on being tested and they have come back positive for whooping cough.

With all the fuss about swine flu this seems to have gone unnoticed and unreported by our media.
Local health authorities have noticed a dramatic increase in whooping cough cases amongst children but as the distinctive "whooping" cough is absent in adults I believe it is not being correctly diagnosed. I'm not saying I have Pertussis, known as the "100 day cough" in adults but it's certainly out there in the community and in very large numbers.