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Texas officials deal with surge in cases.(Brief Article)
2002 AUG 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Texas health officials are continuing to battle a surge in whooping cough cases that has not abated since a record year in 2001.
This year, 378 cases of whooping cough, including the deaths of four infants, have been recorded in 41 Texas counties. About 30% were in children under 1 year old.
Last year, 70 counties had a combined 615 cases, the highest number since 1968 when 802 cases were reported. Five people died.
Health officials attribute the resurgence of whooping cough, also known as pertussis, to several factors: Texas ranks at the bottom for the percentage of children under 3 who are fully immunized; many adults or adolescents are no longer protected by childhood vaccines that last 5-10 years after the last dose; and diagnosing the illness, which at first mimics a bad cold or allergies, is difficult.
Whooping cough's comeback isn't limited to Texas. National rates have been climbing since the 1980s. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a total of 17 deaths nationally in 2000, the most recent figures available.
Burnet County already has recorded 86 cases - the most in Texas - followed by 54 in Travis County.
Diane Romnes, an immunization specialist with the Health Department in Temple, is helping handle the outbreak in Burnet County.
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