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VA: 2012 Whooping cough cases

Re: VA: 2012 Whooping cough cases

Source: http://www.nbc12.com/story/17106668/whooping-cough-suspects-at-chesterfield-middle-school

Whooping cough suspects at Chesterfield Middle School
Posted: Mar 07, 2012 9:57 PM EST Updated: Mar 07, 2012 11:36 PM EST
By Gene Petriello - bio | email

CHESTERFIELD, VA (WWBT) -- We are learning that more than 100 Manchester Middle School students could be at risk to catch whooping cough. This, after a letter was sent home to parents, letting them know about one suspected case of the illness at the school...
 
Re: VA: 2012 Whooping cough cases

Source: http://www.dailypress.com/health/dp-nws-pertussis-vaccines-0308-20120307,0,1970593.story

Vaccination for whooping cough urged for adults
Health departments offering free pertussis vaccines for adults

By Prue Salasky, psalasky@dailypress.com | 757-247-4784

10:43 p.m. EST, March 7, 2012
Virginia's health department wants all adults to be vaccinated against pertussis, or "whooping cough." Though outbreaks of the respiratory tract infection have been stable in Eastern Virginia, cases have doubled statewide in the past few years.

"Locally, regionally and statewide, it's still with us," says David Trump, director of the Peninsula Health District. Just last month, two Isle of Wight elementary schoolchildren had confirmed cases...
 
Re: VA: 2012 Whooping cough cases

Source: http://www.wboc.com/story/18615332/...e-encouraged-to-fight-pertussis-with-vaccines

Accomack County Citizens Urged to Fight Pertussis With Vaccine
Updated: May 24, 2012 1:57 PM EDT
By Stephen Waldron - email


ACCOMACK COUNTY, Va.? Officials with the Eastern Shore (of Virginia) Health District say that pertussis has been confirmed in the Accomack County area, and is urging residents to fight back with Tdap vaccines...
 
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