{"id":130229,"date":"2016-11-11T17:52:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T17:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/nunavut-ramps-up-vaccinations-to-beat-largest-whooping-cough-outbreak-on-record\/"},"modified":"2016-11-11T17:52:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T17:52:47","slug":"nunavut-ramps-up-vaccinations-to-beat-largest-whooping-cough-outbreak-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/nunavut-ramps-up-vaccinations-to-beat-largest-whooping-cough-outbreak-on-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Nunavut ramps up vaccinations to beat largest whooping cough outbreak on record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nunavut government wants to get all Grade 6 to 9 students in the territory immunized by Christmas as it struggles to contain the territory&#8217;s largest whooping cough outbreak on record, a news release says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a disease of the throat and lungs that spreads from person to person and can be very serious or fatal. Symptoms include a cough followed by an unusual &#8220;whoop&#8221; sound or a funny-sounding cough, or vomiting or having difficulty breathing after coughing.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak began last March and has affected many communities in the Qikiqtaaluk and Kivalliq regions of Nunavut, and across the territory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Community public health or health centres can provide more information on when and how the immunization will be delivered in communities, according to the health department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Whooping cough outbreak has now spread throughout territory: Nunavut officials<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8216;We have not seen it stop&#8217;: Canada&#8217;s public health agency to review respiratory illness in Nunavut babies<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nunavut government wants to get all Grade 6 to 9 students in the territory immunized by Christmas as it struggles to contain the territory&#8217;s largest whooping cough outbreak on record, a news release says.\u00a0 Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a disease of the throat and lungs that spreads from person to person and can <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/nunavut-ramps-up-vaccinations-to-beat-largest-whooping-cough-outbreak-on-record\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}