Officials: Closings Don't Halt Outbreak; Whooping Cough Still Can Spread
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › November 18, 2004
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DES MOINES (AP) - State health officials say closing schools in an attempt to contain an outbreak of whooping cough has had little effect.
"When we close school, coughing kids go to the mall or their friends' house," which spreads the bacteria, said Terri Thornton, a nurse for the Iowa Department of Public Health.See the full content of this document
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Officials: Closings Don't Halt Outbreak; Whooping Cough Still Can Spread
And Thornton said she'd heard of at least one case in which students...
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