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'Unusually high number' of pertussis reports

Last updated Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - 11:16pm

CLEARFIELD -- An "unusually high number" of pertussis reports involving school-aged adolescents have put area health officials on heightened alert.

During the past few weeks, Davis County Health Department has seen a high number of pertussis cases, said Bob Ballew, county health public information officer.

And Davis County is not alone.

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12th whooping cough case confirmed in Cache County

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 9:35am

LOGAN -- Health officials say they've confirmed the 12th case of whooping cough in a Cache County outbreak that started earlier this spring.

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Weber-Morgan officials to visit schools to immunize against whooping cough

Jesus Lopez Jr. Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, February 5, 2012 - 11:26pm

OGDEN -- Weber-Morgan Health Department will visit schools through the end of April to offer sixth-graders the whooping cough vaccine.

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Whooping cough outbreak leads to increased vaccinations

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, November 4, 2011 - 6:24am

OGDEN -- The Weber/Morgan Health Department has seen a dramatic increase in immunizations since the recent outbreak of whooping cough at Mount Ogden Junior High School.

There have been seven documented cases of the highly contagious disease in students and employees at the school and two others elsewhere in the Weber-Morgan Health District.

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Whooping cough outbreak raises questions about vaccinations

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, October 31, 2011 - 11:26pm

OGDEN -- Some parents who choose not to vaccinate their children are feeling frustrated and angry about the way they were notified of a whooping cough outbreak in a city school last week.

More than 65 Mount Ogden Junior High School students were sent home for being underimmunized or on immunization exemption -- for personal, religious or medical reasons -- on Oct. 24, when one student case of whooping cough was confirmed.

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Whooping cough scare sends 65 Ogden students home

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 11:16pm

OGDEN -- Sixty-five unimmunized students from Mount Ogden Junior High School were sent home for at least five days Monday morning after the school was notified that one of its students had been diagnosed with whooping cough.

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Whooping cough infects 4 in Cache County

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, May 6, 2011 - 5:33pm

LOGAN -- About 100 elementary school children in Cache County have been told to stay home until further notice after four cases of whooping cough were confirmed, health officials said Friday.

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