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Pertussis outbreak hits Colorado City
Published: Thursday, March 21, 2013 12:52 AM MDT
Daily News staff
COLORADO CITY ? More than 100 confirmed cases of pertussis ? commonly known as whooping cough ? have been reported in the Colorado City area, according to Mohave County Sup. Buster Johnson.
Johnson, not the county health department, disclosed the outbreak in a press release he sent to area news organizations. The release states that ?a few cases? of pertussis had been confirmed in Kingman, Bullhead City and Lake Havasu City, but that ?there have been 114 confirmed cases in the Colorado City area with 16 new cases in the last two weeks along...?
Whooping cough cases seen in Colorado City area
Posted: Jul 30, 2013 7:12 AM EDT Updated: Jul 30, 2013 9:42 AM EDT
PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona's top health official says a remote community long dominated by a polygamist sect is responsible for much of a recent increase in whooping cough in the state...
Whooping Cough Outbreak in Polygamous Towns
By Ladd Egan
Saturday, August 3, 2013
(KUTV) Health officials blame an outbreak of whooping cough in a remote area on the Utah/Arizona border on polygamous families not vaccinating their children...
...Colorado City, Arizona and its twin city Hildale, Utah are home to approximately 8,000 people with many belonging to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, which is headquartered in the area...
Vail School District confirms 4 'whooping cough' cases
Posted: Oct 3, 2013 6:11 PM by Nathan O'Neal
Updated: Oct 3, 2013 7:26 PM
...Four separates cases were found in students at Sycamore Elementary, Civano Community School and Senita Valley Elementary...
...There have been 58 confirmed cases of Pertussis -- or whooping cough -- in Pima County this year, according to the county health department. That's up from the 28 confirmed cases Pima County saw last year at this time...
Increase in Whooping Cough numbers could be tied to new way of counting cases
Posted: Oct 15, 2013 10:59 AM by John Overall
Updated: Oct 15, 2013 12:32 PM
TUCSON - Statistics show Whooping Cough cases are up this year in Pima County, but an expanded definition of a "case" may be increasing those numbers...
...2013 - 72 (as of 10-7)
There is an interesting situation with the number that makes it difficult to compare with previous years. As of Jan. 1, AZ Dept of Health expanded the definition of a "case" which means that more cases are being reported than in prior years. This makes it difficult to take the increase for this year at face value when compared with previous years...
Updated Nov 14, 2013 - 6:21 am
Whooping cough outbreak concerns Arizona health officers
By Bob McClay
Originally published: Nov 14, 2013 - 5:00 am
PHOENIX -- State health officials want you to go to the doctor to get vaccinated. It's because pertussis, which is also known as whooping cough, is going around.
Jessica Rigler of the Arizona Department of Health Services says that as of Nov. 7, Arizona has been slammed with about 12,000 cases of whooping cough in this latest outbreak.
"The Phoenix area has about 400 cases right now," said Rigler. "We've got a pretty large outbreak going on up north in Mohave County. They make up about 580 of the cases." ...
Kyrene School District warns parents of whooping cough outbreak
Posted: Nov 19, 2013 9:58 AM EST Updated: Nov 19, 2013 10:01 AM EST
By FOX 10 News Staff
TEMPE, Ariz. -
The Kyrene School District is warning parents that their schools are seeing an outbreak of whooping cough.
The school district sent out a letter out to parents warning them about the outbreak.
It says there have been several cases, but no exact number was given...
Whooping cough cases in Pima County at 8-year high
4 hours ago ? By Stephanie Innes
Whooping cough cases are at an eight-year high in Pima County, and the Vail area southeast of Tucson continues to suffer the deepest consequences of the ongoing problem.
Forty-one cases of whooping cough have been reported in Tucson-area schools since June, and 63 percent of them have been in the 12,000-student Vail School District, county health data show. Sycamore Elementary School has had the most cases ? six students and one staff member since June...
