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Campaign to Get Health Care Workers Immunized

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:36-07:00March 18th, 2013|General, Prevention|

Believe it or not only 27% of health care workers are up to date with their whooping cough booster… yet health care personnel can be infected with it by their patients, and then pass it on to other patients, family, and the community. The Arizona Partnership Against Pertussis, a coalition of seventeen health care organizations [...]

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Whooping it Up

By azdhs-admin|2011-08-30T08:32:40-07:00August 30th, 2011|General|

When it comes to microbes- the whooping cough (pertussis) is a contrarian. Unlike most other pathogens- it does better in the summer than the winter. While most other infectious diseases are on the wane right now- whooping cough is whooping it up. We’ve been seeing an increase in whooping cough cases in Arizona this summer- [...]

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