WA: 2014 whooping cough

[Emily]

http://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/Documents/Pubs/348-254-PertussisUpdate.pdf

Weekly pertussis update for Washington State
2014 year to date (YTD) confirmed and probable cases reported through 3/15/2014 (week 11)

This update summarizes reports of pertussis in persons with 2014 onsets received by local health jurisdictions (LHJs) during weeks 1-11, made visible to Washington State Department of Health (DOH) - Communicable Disease Epidemiology, and containing sufficient information for a DOH case classification to have been assigned.
There have been a total of 29 cases reported statewide through week 11, compared to 173 reported cases in 2013 during the same time period. Dates for the 2013/2014 comparison were based on LHJ notification date.
Thirty-one counties have reported no pertussis activity so far in 2014.
Among the eight counties with pertussis activity, the number of pertussis cases reported in a given
county so far this year ranges from 1 to 9, and the year to date rate of disease in a given county ranges
from 0.4 to 16.4 per 100,000 persons (see Table 1).
The overall incidence year to date is 0.4 pertussis cases per 100,000 Washington residents with a rate
in infants under one year of age of 2.3 per 100,000 (see Table 2). Two infants under one year of age
were reported as having whooping cough and were not hospitalized.

 

[Shiloh]

Re: WA: 2014 whooping cough

Source: http://www.whidbeynewstimes.com/news/256768801.html#


Three cases of whooping cough reported on Whidbey
by JESSIE STENSLAND, Whidbey News-Times Co-editor
Today at 3:00AM

Three recent cases of whooping cough in Oak Harbor schools and one in Coupeville ? as well as the measles outbreak in surrounding counties ? should serve as a reminder of the importance of vaccinations, said Brad Thomas, the Island County Health Officer.

Coupeville schools sent out a letter to parents this week, notifying them that a student in the middle/high school was diagnosed with pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough...

 

[Shiloh]

Re: WA: 2014 whooping cough

Source: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2014/07/08/3740080/more-than-200-exposed-to-whooping.html

More than 200 exposed to whooping cough in Grant County
By Tri-City Herald
July 8, 2014 Updated 45 minutes ago

Grant County Health District staff are investigating three confirmed cases and 210 people who came in contact with ill individuals with whooping cough in Mattawa and Quincy.

Antibiotics were given to the 210 people between Thursday and Monday.

“We are responding to a cluster of whooping cough cases among migrant farm workers near Mattawa and Quincy. Because of a large number of exposed and ill individuals in a very well-defined area, we are considering this a local outbreak,” said Dr. Alexander Brzezny, Grant County health officer.

No one has been hospitalized...