Calaveras County Health Officer Dr. Dean Kelaita urged adults and youths who have infants or expectant mothers in their households to get immunized against the disease. So far this year, at least six people have died of whooping cough in California, all of them infants.
"The Health Department is also investigating several other cases which are likely to also be confirmed as cases of pertussis," Kelaita said.
Kelaita declined to identify the age, sex or town of residence of those infected, saying that in the county's small communities it would be easy for such information to violate the privacy of patients. But he said that both adults and children have been affected, and that no one in Calaveras County has died or been hospitalized because of the disease.
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Kelaita said that anyone in the county should assume they are at risk for exposure.
Meanwhile, San Joaquin County as of Tuesday this week had received 28 reports of pertussis cases so far this year, said County Health Officer Dr. Karen Furst. Not all of those cases have yet been formally investigated and reported to the state government, she said.
Furst said it is important for people to be vaccinated well before a pregnant relative is expected to give birth. That way they will develop immunity before a new baby comes into the household and will be less likely to pass the disease on to the infant.
Before the current epidemic, in the first six months of 2009, Calaveras County had the highest rate of pertussis in California - a rate of 14.83 cases per 100,000 population. According to the California Department of Public Health, that figure came from seven actual cases divided by the county population of less than 50,000.
Kelaita said there may be two explanations for the high rate last year: 1. the current epidemic began earlier in the Mother Lode and 2. the county has a relatively low rate of vaccination against the disease compared with the state as a whole.
The Tdap (Tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis) vaccine gives immunity to the disease but that immunity does not last forever. Middle-school age children, for example, need a booster if they have not received the Tdap since they were in kindergarten, Kelaita said.
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