Whooping Cough in Rochester

Multiple cases in a local high school

Coronavirus, influenza, and now whooping cough.

The minnesota state department's weekly report says that 366 people were hospitalized for the flu last week, bringing the total to about 28 hundred.

Minnesota doesn't have any coronavirus cases yet, but unfortunately in our area the whooping cough has popped up at the mayo high school.

Olmsted county public health sent a letter home to mayo parents yesterday á warning that some students are confirmed to have pertussis á known as whooping cough á and other students may have been exposed.

Whooping cough symptoms begin like the common cold... but a persistent cough develops after a week or two.

A highápitched "whooping" noise of the cough is what gives pertussis its nickname.

Ashley fischer is a mother of all you can really do is a healthy diet and handwashing we did reach out to rochester public schools... it says its daily practice is to track students symptoms and absences to report necessary information to public health... it also practices healthy habits like hand washing and covering your mouth when you cough.