Nearly 1,200 cases have been reported in Washington compared to 51 last year.
Whooping cough cases are surging in Washington state, mirroring trends seen across the United States, health officials are warning.Over the same period, 28 people have been hospitalized, including 12 infants under the age of one, the latter of whom are at the highest risk of serious illness and death from the disease, the WSDOH said.
"We are seeing declining vaccination rates, especially in people under the age of 18, and so, because of that, that is really the major reason why we're seeing the rise in whooping cough right now," Roberts told ABC News. "What's happened is they get their primary childhood vaccine series, and then they don't get that ten-year follow-up booster dose."
"Somebody like, 'Well, what's the big deal about pertussis or whooping cough?' Well, the other name is called the 100-day cough," Dr. Jason Newland, chief of infectious diseases at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, told ABC News. "And people that get this can break ribs, they can cough so much they throw up. Babies can end up in the hospital, babies can die from pertussis.
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