Whooping cough jump concerns health officials

Grant County Health District staff are responding to a jump in whooping cough activity.

Since June 2024, there have been 21 people with confirmed whooping cough and 7 other people with the disease symptoms and linkage to infected individuals.

Most of those infected had not been vaccinated or were not up to date with the vaccine for whooping cough, also called pertussis.

Before this increase, Grant...