WIS News 10 - Columbia, South Carolina | Milwaukee Trying to Control Whooping Cough Outbreak
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Health officials in Milwaukee have told people with suspected symptoms of whooping cough to seek treatment and stay at home until they're no longer contagious.
The request is an attempt to control a whooping cough outbreak. There have been 27 cases reported in Milwaukee, seven of them since last Friday. There were only 15 cases of whooping cough (pertusis) in the city last year.
Geoff Swain, the city's associate medical director, told the Associated Press that many adults with whooping cough experience mild symptoms and may not even know they have it.
Whooping cough is spread when an infected person talks, coughs or sneezes. Initial symptoms resemble those of the common cold. But people with whooping cough develop uncontrollable coughing fits.
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