Whooping cough

• The Centers for Disease Control is pointing to Washington states whooping cough epidemic as an example for the rest of the nation as infection rates rise.
(NBCNews.com)
• Changes to the vaccination schedule for whooping cough may be needed to better protect pre-adolescents from the infection during outbreaks, researchers say.
(YAHOO!)
• ATLANTA -- Health officials say the nation is on track to have the worst year for whooping cough in more than five decades. Nearly 18,000 cases have been reported so far – more than twice the number seen at this point last year.
(Huffington Post)
• Health officials are warning that whooping cough is making a comeback in Georgia. A baby girl is one of five people already sickened in Newton County and health officials have tied three cases to a local church.
(FOX News)
• If you havent had the whooping cough vaccine, now is the time to get it. The Centers for Disease Control has declared the number of cases at an epidemic level.
(KHOU)
• SALT LAKE CITY, July 18 (UPI) -- Utah is reporting elevated levels of whooping cough, or pertussis, exceeding the numbers reported in the last several years, state health officials said.
(United Press International)
• Because whooping cough (pertussis) is almost as contagious as measles (affecting ~12-17 individuals with each case), clinicians are required to report cases of this bacterial respiratory tract infection to the states department of public health.
(medicalxpress.com)
• The unmistakable bark of a whooping cough in a child is heartbreaking, but more cases of adults are being reported, according the Centers for Disease Control.
(KSAT 12)
• In just the first six months of 2012, the Southern Nevada Health District reports there have already been two more cases of potentially fatal whooping cough, or pertussis, in Southern Nevada than the 20 experienced all of last year.
(Las Vegas Review Journal)