Case of whooping cough confirmed at junior high school in Dartmouth

CBC News

· Posted: May 12, 2025 4:56 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

Nova Scotia Health has confirmed a lawsuit of whooping cough at a schoolhouse successful Dartmouth, N.S.

Staff and families of Caledonia Junior High person been notified and the wellness authorization is moving with the infected idiosyncratic to place much adjacent contacts, the authorization said successful a connection to CBC News.

Whooping cough, besides known arsenic pertussis, is simply a vaccine-preventable respiratory corruption and the hazard of school-aged children and adults becoming earnestly sick is low, Dr. Cristin Muecke, determination aesculapian serviceman of health, said successful the statement.

People who are vaccinated against the unwellness are considered good protected, but babies who are excessively young to beryllium vaccinated are astatine highest hazard of terrible illness, the connection said.

Whooping cough spreads easy from idiosyncratic to idiosyncratic done the air when idiosyncratic who is infected coughs oregon sneezes.

Symptoms of pertussis include:

• Deep accelerated coughing followed by a "whoop" sound.
• Vomiting aft coughing. 
• Coughing that is astir severe at night.
• Apnea (periods of not breathing) successful babies.

Nova Scotians tin entree their vaccine records astatine vaxrecordns.nshealth.ca, the connection said. More accusation astir whooping cough tin beryllium recovered on the wellness authority's website.