NC: 2011 Whooping cough cases

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Source: http://www.citizen-times.com/articl...son-County-child-care-center?odyssey=nav|head

Whooping cough suspected at Henderson County child care center
4:34 PM, Mar. 9, 2011 |

HENDERSONVILLE ? Health officials are urging medical providers to be on the look out for cases of whooping cough following a cluster of possible cases at a child care center in western Henderson County...

 

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Student at Asheville elementary school diagnosed with whooping cough (Buncombe County)
Other Claxton students given antibiotics
10:52 PM, Mar. 28, 2011 |
gannett.com
Written by
Julie Ball

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ASHEVILLE ? Health officials are giving antibiotics to a group of first-graders at Claxton Elementary School as a precaution after a classmate was diagnosed with whooping cough...

 

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Source: http://www2.wnct.com/news/2011/oct/...sed-whooping-cough-pink-hill-elem-ar-1549384/


5-year-old diagnosed with Whooping Cough at Pink Hill Elementary
Around 90 people, including students and staff at Pink Hill Elementary were exposed to the child.

By: Stephanie Moore
Published: October 28, 2011
Updated: October 28, 2011 - 2:10 PM

PINK HILL, N.C. - Health officials confirm a student at Pink Hill Elementary School in Lenoir County has been diagnosed with Whooping Cough.

The Lenoir County Health Department tells Nine On Your Side a 5-year-old boy was diagnosed with Whooping Cough, or pertusiss - a highly contagious bacterial infection. No word on when the child first became ill. Officials say the boy was previously vaccinated, and that chances of getting Whooping Cough with immunization is very unlikely...

 

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hree cases of whooping cough confirmed in Alamance County
December 28, 2011 5:02 PM
Roselee Papandrea / Times-News

Letters were mailed to parents recommending that all students and staff at B. Everett Jordan Elementary School who might have been exposed to whooping cough receive preventive antibiotics after health officials confirmed last week that at least three children at the school have the bacterial infection.

The Alamance County Health Department was notified on Dec. 21 that one child at the elementary school, located on Church Road near Saxapahaw, has ?laboratory confirmed pertussis,? according to a health department news release. Since that time, two other children have been diagnosed with the cough...

 

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Source: http://www.thetimesnews.com/articles/cases-51073-cough-whooping.html

More cases of whooping cough identified
December 30, 2011 2:31 PM
Roselee Papandrea / Times-News

Additional cases of whooping cough have been identified in Alamance County since health officials announced earlier this week that the state lab confirmed that three children at B. Everett Jordan Elementary have the bacterial infection...

 

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Source: http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/d19a45e05c534f3582ce4be75ee29dc8/NC--Whooping-Cough/

Elementary school in Graham reports 4 more cases of whooping cough and 9 probable infections

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* First Posted: December 31, 2011 - 11:57 am
Last Updated: December 31, 2011 - 11:57 am

BURLINGTON, N.C. ? Authorities say four additional cases of whooping cough have been identified at an Alamance County elementary school.

The county Health Department says it didn't order lab tests to confirm the diagnosis because the people have whooping cough symptoms and were in contact with the three children with confirmed cases at B. Everett Jordan Elementary School in Graham...