According to state health officials, North Dakota has more than four times the whooping cough cases it had last year. The North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services has confirmed 73 instances of pertussis as of Wednesday, up from the 17 cases reported in all of 2023.
The state of Minnesota reported 1,019 cases as of October 10. This number was much more than the 61 reported all last year by the state. Roughly 85% of Minnesota’s cases were in counties surrounding the Twin Cities area. Clay County reported 14.
The last major uptick of whooping cough cases in North Dakota was in 2012, when the state had 214 cases.
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