Whooping cough spike reaches epidemic level in Alaska, public health experts warn

Dr. Janet Shen has been a pediatrician at the Children’s Clinic in Anchorage for almost thirty years. And she said in the past few weeks, she’s seen more cases of whooping cough, or pertussis, than in the rest of her career. “Mostly it’s children [or] teenagers who have…

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