Pertussis

Pediatric Critical Care Columnist · Oct 15, 2014

Well, it's definitely out there! I'd say it's sporadic; we see the occasional baby in our PICUs with it and the suspicion is always there for infants with a cough. There are outbreaks every couple of years in various places across the province; there was one in the Edmonton-and-north area in 2012 and another this spring in southern Alberta, with one death in recent years.

This is from January 2014: Bordetella pertussis in sporadic and outbreak... [bMC Infect Dis. 2014] - PubMed - NCBI It examines Alberta's statistics from 2004 to 2012.

kp1987 · Oct 16, 2014

Well, it's definitely out there! I'd say it's sporadic; we see the occasional baby in our PICUs with it and the suspicion is always there for infants with a cough. There are outbreaks every couple of years in various places across the province; there was one in the Edmonton-and-north area in 2012 and another this spring in southern Alberta, with one death in recent years.
This is from January 2014: Bordetella pertussis in sporadic and outbreak... [bMC Infect Dis. 2014] - PubMed - NCBI It examines Alberta's statistics from 2004 to 2012.

Thanks a bunch! That is quite helpful!