Coeur D’Alene Student Has Whooping Cough

Wed., Dec. 24, 1997

A seventh-grade Lakeland Junior High student has tested positive for pertussis, according to the Panhandle Health District.

The student rides the No. 12 bus to school, and all of the people with whom the infected student has had close contact have been notified.

However, because it’s impossible to know who else has come into contact with the student, any student at Lakeland Junior High who has the symptoms of pertussis should be evaluated by a health care provider.

Symptoms start like those of a common cold and progress to a persistent cough - hence the more common name for the illness: whooping cough.

Isolation and proper antibiotic therapy are the only ways to prevent the spread of pertussis, according to the Panhandle Health District.

It was not known late Tuesday how many cases of pertussis have been reported in Kootenai County, but as of Monday, the tally was 22.

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