LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – Louisville Metro Health & Wellness is urging vaccinations for whooping cough after two infants died and multiple cases have been confirmed in Jefferson County.
Last week, Kentucky Department for Public Health commissioner, Dr. Steven Stack announced that two infants had died in the past six months from whooping cough, a bacterial infection also known as pertussis.
Whooping cough is a vaccine preventable illness. Neither the infants nor their mothers had received the recommended immunizations against pertussis during pregnancy or infancy. These were the first whooping cough-related deaths reported in Kentucky since 2018…