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Posted: Thursday, 19 July 2012 6:09AM

State Tops 3000 Whooping Cough Cases For 2012



OLYMPIA, Wash.  (Metro)  -- Over 3000 cases of whooping cough have been diagnosed in Washington state so far this year, according to data from the State Department of Health. 

Two-hundred-nineteen cases of the disease also known as pertussis were diagnosed in the same period last year. 

KING 5 News reports Officials of the Centers for Disease Control and the Washington Department of Health will release more details about the state's epidemic at a 9 a.m. briefing today. 

They will also provide more information on prevention resources.

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