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Six schools have confirmed cases of whooping cough in Champaign County
Tue, 11/28/2017 - 11:55am | Debra Pressey
CHAMPAIGN ? Six schools in Champaign County have confirmed cases of whooping cough, among them Rantoul High School where local health authorities have declared an outbreak.
To date this year, there have been about 35 cases of this contagious illness, also called pertussis, in Champaign County, with 25 confirmed cases since mid-October, according to Rachella Thompson-Brown, communicable disease investigator for the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District.
"We're just really seeing a lot of pertussis this year," she said.
The outbreak at Rantoul High School has 20 confirmed cases to date, Thompson-Brown said.
There have also been two confirmed cases at Thomasboro Grade School, one at Villa Grove High School, one at J.W. Eater Jr. High School in Rantoul and most recently, two cases at Mahomet-Seymour schools ? one involving a third grader at Lincoln Trail Elementary School and one a seventh grader at the junior high school.
All these other cases have been confirmed in the past couple of weeks, and none have been linked to the Rantoul High School outbreak, Thompson-Brown said...
Six schools have confirmed cases of whooping cough in Champaign County
Tue, 11/28/2017 - 11:55am | Debra Pressey
CHAMPAIGN ? Six schools in Champaign County have confirmed cases of whooping cough, among them Rantoul High School where local health authorities have declared an outbreak.
To date this year, there have been about 35 cases of this contagious illness, also called pertussis, in Champaign County, with 25 confirmed cases since mid-October, according to Rachella Thompson-Brown, communicable disease investigator for the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District.
"We're just really seeing a lot of pertussis this year," she said.
The outbreak at Rantoul High School has 20 confirmed cases to date, Thompson-Brown said.
There have also been two confirmed cases at Thomasboro Grade School, one at Villa Grove High School, one at J.W. Eater Jr. High School in Rantoul and most recently, two cases at Mahomet-Seymour schools ? one involving a third grader at Lincoln Trail Elementary School and one a seventh grader at the junior high school.
All these other cases have been confirmed in the past couple of weeks, and none have been linked to the Rantoul High School outbreak, Thompson-Brown said...