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  • ME: 2010 Whooping cough cases

    Source: http://www.bangordailynews.com/story...g-cough,153174
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    Health officials fear bad year for whooping cough

    9/7/10 03:11 pm Updated: 9/7/10 03:14 pm
    By Meg Haskell
    BDN Staff

    As Maine children head back to school, Dr. Dora Anne Mills, director of the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is worried about the spread of whooping cough, a potentially deadly bacterial infection more formally known as pertussis.

    On Monday, the Maine CDC issued a health advisory for parents and health professionals, urging them to be vigilant in checking out the symptoms of pertussis and strongly recommending the vaccine that prevents the infection.

    So far this year, 32 Maine residents have been diagnosed with pertussis, according to the advisory. Of those cases, 11 were diagnosed in the past month...

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    Re: ME: 2010 Whooping cough cases

    Source: http://new.bangordailynews.com/2010/...g-cough-cases/

    Maine sees rash of whooping cough cases
    The Associated Press
    Posted Dec. 28, 2010, at 8:33 a.m.

    ...Since Nov. 1, there have been 13 cases of whooping cough in Maine, also known as Pertussis, compared with seven cases in the same period last year...

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