Manitoba: 2010 Whooping cough cases

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Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION
Eight Manitoba kids hospitalized with whooping cough
By: Jen Skerritt
Posted: 11/09/2010 1:00 AM | Comments: 0

Eight Manitoba children were hospitalized this spring after multiple northern First Nations were hit by a sudden spike in whooping cough.

Provincial health officials confirmed there's been a recent upswing in the number of reported cases of pertussis, also known as whooping cough. A total of 34 cases have been reported so far this year, including at least 16 confirmed cases in First Nations communities within the boundaries of the Burntwood Regional Health Authority in April and May. Officials confirmed eight children under five were hospitalized with whooping cough...

 

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Re: Manitoba: 2010 Whooping cough cases

<TABLE class=contentpaneopen><TBODY><TR><TD class=contentheading width="100%">Cases Of Whooping Cough Rise </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=contentpaneopen><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top width="70%" colSpan=2 align=left>Written by Candace Derksen </TD></TR><TR><TD class=createdate vAlign=top colSpan=2>Monday, 01 November 2010 </TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top colSpan=2>

Health officials are seeing twice as many whooping cough cases in Manitoba as they have in previous years. Whooping cough, also known as Pertusis, is a bacterial infection that causes respiratory illness that starts off with a cough and fever and progress into a prolonged cough that in infants can come out in harsh spasms and cause the child to not stop coughing which in turn sounds like a "whoop". Medical Officer of Health for the Central R.H.A. Dr. Shelley Buchan says whooping cough is frequently around, however there can be periodic outbreaks such as the one in California that has claimed the lives of ten infants this fall. Buchan adds four cases have already been reported in Central region since June, and says they are aware whooping cough is in the communities, particularly in the southern part of the region.

Buchan notes whenever you see a jump in illnesses where vaccinations are available it means the organism is finding people that are not immune...

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