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In response to the recent outbreak of whooping cough in Long Island, Suffolk County health officials have sent a letter to day camp directors and parents to warn them and to make them aware of best practices.
Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is a bacteria that causes severe coughing, is very contagious, and is sometimes deadly. Vaccines weaken the bacteria, causing less intense symptoms, but do not always prevent the disease. Some people are only 80% protected and the protection disappears over time. In fact, all of the Smithtown outbreak children were "immunized." Antibiotics are used to fight pertussis.
To help treat the illness, the letter to day camp directors and parents advises them on the disease's stages, and asks them to identify symptoms early, to treat early, and keep the kids home.
45 cases of whooping cough this month have been accounted for. All were children, who go to one of three schools. Suffolk has suffered eleven other unrelated cases. This total of 56 has already surpassed the 54 instances of whooping cough found in Suffolk during all of 2010.
The Y has sent the letter to its 1,000 children in five day camps. Ivy league Day Camp in Smithtown has notified its 500 children.
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