Intercostal neuralgia causes paroxysmal burning pain or pricking pain .
肋间神经痛呈阵发性的灼痛或刺痛。
This highly contagious disease-known as whooping cough for the distinctive sound its victims make when gasping for air after a fit of paroxysmal coughing-was a scourge of childhood until the advent of an effective vaccine against it in the 1940s , which drastically reduced incidence of the disease .
