{"id":468412,"date":"2026-02-11T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/468412\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:00:07","slug":"health-officials-warn-yukon-sees-rise-in-whooping-cough-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/468412\/","title":{"rendered":"Health officials warn Yukon sees rise in whooping cough cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whitehorse, YT \u2013 Yukon\u2019s Chief Medical Officer of Health is reporting a rise in whooping cough cases and is urging residents to watch for symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a highly contagious bacterial infection that spreads through coughing, sneezing or close face-to-face contact. It often starts like a cold before turning into a worsening cough that can last for weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Severe coughing fits may cause gagging or vomiting and can be followed by a high-pitched \u201cwhoop.\u201d Infants may have pauses in breathing.<\/p>\n<p>A Yukon Government release says that anyone with a persistent new cough or symptoms of pertussis should stay home and contact a healthcare provider, while people with severe symptoms should seek urgent care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whitehorse, YT \u2013 Yukon\u2019s Chief Medical Officer of Health is reporting a rise in whooping cough cases and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,140797,140796,84,884,44,1893,39331,140798,140806,140807,140805,140800,140799,140803,140804,140801,140802],"class_list":{"0":"post-468412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-ckrw","11":"tag-ckrw-the-rush","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-radio","16":"tag-radio-station","17":"tag-the-rush","18":"tag-whitehorse-local","19":"tag-whitehorse-local-news","20":"tag-whitehorse-news","21":"tag-whitehorse-radio","22":"tag-whitehorse-radio-station","23":"tag-yukon-local","24":"tag-yukon-local-news","25":"tag-yukon-radio","26":"tag-yukon-radio-station"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}