Whooping cough cases double in south zone just over a week since outbreak declared

LETHBRIDGE – Since declaring a whooping cough outbreak in the south zone just over a week ago, Alberta Health Services has seen an ongoing increase in the number of confirmed cases. When AHS officials declared the outbreak on Oct. 16, they reported 15 cases had been confirmed in the two weeks prior. Since then, 16 new confirmed cases of whooping cough have been reported, with 53 per cent of the 31 total confirmed cases in the south zone so far this year having occurred in just the past thr