Whooping cough classroom cluster in ML School Dist.

Grant County Health District staff members are investigating five laboratory-confirmed cases and 149 people that came in close contact with ill individuals with whooping cough (pertussis) in Moses Lake schools: Peninsula Elementary and Chief Moses Middle School. No one has been hospitalized. “We are responding to a cluster of whooping cough cases among students in Moses Lake. Because of a large number of exposed and ill individuals in a very well-defined area, we are considering this a local cluster outbreak,” said Dr. Alexander Brzezny, Grant County Health Officer. “Preventing severe disease...