Pertussis outbreak hints at possible spread of more preventable illnesses • Wisconsin Examiner

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Pertussis outbreak hints at possible spread of more preventable illnesses • Wisconsin Examiner

A health care provider bandages a child after giving a vaccination shot. (Scott Housely | CDC)Add yet another respiratory illness to those cropping up in the last year in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic: whooping cough. On Tuesday, Public Health Madison & Dane County reported an outbreak of pertussis — whooping cough — in the county. The outbreak has affected 43 people over the last eight weeks, most of them teenagers. The department declined …