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Whooping cough cases, fueled by school outbreaks, triple in Colorado from last year

Pertussis is most dangerous to babies

Valerie Castillo holds her 5-week-old son, Jeremiah Damian, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012, at Rocky Mountain Children's Hospital at Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center in Denver. Jeremiah Damian just recently got out of the ICU at the hospital with whooping cough. Cases of whooping cough are on the rise in Colorado. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post, file)
Valerie Castillo holds her 5-week-old son, Jeremiah Damian, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012, at Rocky Mountain Children’s Hospital at Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center in Denver. Jeremiah Damian just recently got out of the ICU at the hospital with whooping cough. Cases of whooping cough are on the rise in Colorado. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post, file)
DENVER, CO - MARCH 7: Meg Wingerter - Staff portraits at the Denver Post studio. (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)
By | mwingerter@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Colorado had 333 cases of pertussis, the formal name for whooping cough, as of Aug. 3.
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