Montana: 2013 Whooping cough cases

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Anaconda plagued by whooping cough, chicken pox

Posted: Jan 23, 2013 7:27 PM by Katy Harris - MTN News
Updated: Jan 23, 2013 7:28 PM

ANACONDA - Anaconda Deer Lodge Health Department staff have contacted over 100 people to warn that they may have been exposed to pertussis, or whooping cough. So far, officials have confirmed four cases of the illness in teen students.

The Anaconda Deer Lodge Public Health Director Heidi Nielsen said it takes hours to notify everyone who's come into contact with an infected person...

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Anaconda sees 5th "Whooping Cough" case
Posted: Jan 24, 2013 7:12 PM by Katy Harris KXLF News
Updated: Jan 24, 2013 7:20 PM


ANACONDA- No cases of Pertussis or Whooping Cough have been reported in Silver Bow County, but another case has popped up in Anaconda.

5 people have now been confirmed to carry the illness in Anaconda.
This newest case is in a 13 year old student...

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Pertussis cases increasing in Anaconda

Posted: Jan 29, 2013 7:48 AM by MTN News - Butte
Updated: Jan 29, 2013 7:48 AM

ANACONDA - Local health officials have confirmed 11 causes of whooping cough, according to Anaconda-Deer Lodge Pubic Health Department Director Heidi Nielson.

Nearly 300 people have been exposed to the illness in Anaconda, according to Nielson, and on Monday more test results were sent to the state health department...

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Butte sees 1st case of whooping cough; 22 reported in Anaconda
6 hours ago ? PIPER HAUGAN Montana Standard

BUTTE ? Butte-Silver Bow County on Wednesday recorded its first official case of pertussis this year, while neighboring Anaconda-Deer Lodge County saw its numbers rise.

The disease, commonly known as whooping cough, was diagnosed on a person at Butte High School, county health officials said.

In Anaconda, four new cases were confirmed Wednesday after more than 40 tests were administered, bumping the county's total to 22, said county health department director Linda Best...

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First adult infected with whooping cough recent outbreak in Anaconda
Posted: Feb 1, 2013 4:04 PM by Katy Harris - MTN News

ANACONDA-The whooping cough or Pertussis outbreak in Anaconda has been confirmed in the first adult.

25 Anaconda individuals are now confirmed to have the illness...

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More whooping cough reported in Flathead Co.
Posted: Feb 3, 2013 7:56 AM by Laura Wilson - KAJ News

KALISPELL - Local health officials report that whooping cough is on the rise in Flathead County.

Seven new cases of pertussis have been confirmed at Flathead, Glacier, and Columbia Falls high schools over the last two weeks...

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More whooping cough cases reported in Anaconda

Posted: Feb 6, 2013 8:52 AM by MTN News - Butte
Updated: Feb 6, 2013 8:52 AM

ANACONDA - Officials at the health department in Anaconda say that whooping cough is still spreading.

Officials confirmed 27 cases of pertussis in Anaconda on Tuesday. Those cases are mostly within the Anaconda school system, according to Linda Best, acting director of the public health department in Anaconda...

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Second case of whooping cough confirmed
10 hours ago ? By Piper Haugan of The Montana Standard

A second case of pertussis ? also called whooping cough ? has been reported in Butte, bringing the county?s total to two.

Karen Maloughney, public health nurse for the Butte-Silver Bow County Health Department, told The Montana Standard on Wednesday evening that the second case of pertussis was confirmed at Butte High School late Tuesday...

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Helena schools see pertussis outbreak
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3 hours ago ? IR Staff


An outbreak of whooping cough, or pertussis, is spreading in Helena schools. There have been dozens of cases since it started in February...

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Emergency health team to meet about whooping cough outbreak
11 hours ago ? By AL KNAUBER Independent Record

The Lewis and Clark City-County Health Department is planning a meeting of its health emergency team to talk about the rise in whooping cough cases since February.

Mike Henderson, a registered nurse who is also the administrator of the communicable disease control and prevention office for the Health Department, said on Wednesday that the 42 cases of pertussis represent a chronic, low-level outbreak...

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Montana health official urges pertussis awareness
Posted: Apr 12, 2013 9:02 AM by Evan Weborg - MTN News

HELENA - The Lewis & Clark City-County Health Department has reported 50 cases of pertussis since February.

The whooping outbreak ranges in age from two to 54 years, but most of the cases have been seen in teenagers...

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County checking on a few whooping cough cases
GAIL SCHONTZLER, Chronicle Staff Writer
Posted: Thursday, May 2, 2013 5:20 pm

Several people in a local household with a teenager at Bozeman High School have come down with whooping cough, so a limited number of students who have been in close contact are being advised to see their doctors...

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Kalispell dance cancelled due to pertussis outbreak
Posted: May 16, 2013 12:13 PM by KPAX/KAJ Media Center

KALISPELL - A pertussis outbreak has forced the cancellation of the "School's Out" spring dance that had been scheduled for Friday, May 17 at Kalispell Middle School...

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Montana has high number of whooping cough cases
6 hours ago

The state health department says an unusually high number of whooping cough cases continue to be reported in Montana.

The Department of Public Health and Human Services says more than 265 cases have been reported since the beginning of the year, with the vast majority among school-aged children...

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8th whooping cough case confirmed in Butte
Posted: Jul 1, 2013 6:30 PM by MTN News - Butte
Updated: Jul 1, 2013 9:56 PM


BUTTE - Local health officials say that another case of whooping cough was confirmed on Friday.

The Butte Silver Bow Health Department has now confirmed eight whooping cough, or pertussis, cases since June 5...