NZ: 2012/2013 Whooping cough outbreaks

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Re: NZ: 2012/2013 Whooping cough outbreaks

Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/n...ng-cough-cases

New whooping cough cases
JAMES GREENLAND
Last updated 13:00 26/04/2013


Nelson's whooping cough outbreak continues, with at least 35 new cases notified last month.

During the past 20 months more than 1200 people across the region have contracted whooping cough (pertussis), with Nelson city being the most affected area. In some cases, children had become so sick they needed to be hospitalised, Nelson Marlborough medical officer of health Dr Jill Sherwood said...

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Re: NZ: 2012/2013 Whooping cough outbreaks

Source: http://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/42575-...ing-cough.html


Adults spreading whooping cough
Posted at 8:56am Friday 26th Apr, 2013 | By Letitia Atkinson letitia@thesun.co.nz

Adults are battling whooping cough in the Bay of Plenty, making up half the number of patients suffering from the disease, according to the Bay of Plenty Medical Officer of Health.

Dr Phil Shoemack says there is a nationwide whooping cough outbreak and adults are responsible for a lot of the spread of infection...

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Re: NZ: 2012/2013 Whooping cough outbreaks

Source: http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/article.aspx?id=168853

Whooping cough outbreak in Northland
More cases of whooping cough have been reported in Northland in the first five months of 2013 than in the entire year in 2012.
19 June 2013

Northland is in the grips of a whopping cough outbreak, with more cases of the potentially deadly infection reported in five months than overall last year.

Babies are bearing the brunt of the contagious respiratory condition, with three in every four infected Northland infant under one ending up in hospital.

Public Health has been notified of 93 cases in the area in the five months from January to June - more than the total reported in 2012.

Northland DHB says for every reported case of whopping cough there could be 80 to 100 other cases, meaning the area may have been hit by up to 9000 cases of the infection since the beginning of the year...

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Source: http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/region...inations-urged

Whooping cough vaccinations urged

Updated at 12:30 pm on 28 June 2013

Waikato medical officer of health Anita Bell is urging families expecting babies or with newborns to get them vaccinated for whooping cough...

...Two hundred and five cases have been notified so far this year, up from 63 at the same time last year...

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Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-e...-have-hit-peak

Slow-spreading outbreak may have hit peak
IAN ALLEN
Last updated 07:50 19/07/2013

A prolonged whooping cough outbreak across the top of the south is expected to drop off at the end of the year despite reported cases in July already exceeding last month's total.

The region had 60 new cases reported by yesterday compared to 50 cases for all of June.

However, Nelson Marlborough medical officer of health Jill Sherwood said outbreaks normally lasted only two years.

The existing outbreak was officially declared in August 2011...

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Source: http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/26...ing-cough-rise

Whooping cough on rise
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Sun, 21 Jul 2013
News: Dunedin | Whooping cough

Dunedin's whooping cough outbreak has worsened - and many more people might unknowingly have the illness. David de Lorean reports.

Whooping cough is making Dunedin sick - at a pace worse than that of the previous three years combined.

There had been 119 cases of whooping cough diagnosed in Dunedin by the end of June, more than the number of notified cases for all of 2010, 2011 and 2012...