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Health notice
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The operator drove the 10 route from 5:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. If you have concerns about illness, please consult your medical provider, local health department or call the Oregon Public Health Division Hotline at 1-800-978-3040.
Whooping cough is a bacterial infection that can spread through the air when people cough. It usually starts like a common cold and gets worse and worse over 1-2 weeks as a cough develops. People with whooping cough usually spread the disease by coughing or sneezing while in close contact with others, who then breathe in the bacteria that cause the disease. People with whooping cough may have coughing spells in which they can’t catch their breath between coughs. As they catch their breath at the end of a coughing spell, they may loudly gasp (“whoop”). There is usually no fever with whooping cough.
4 comments:
So the operator caught it from one of the riders? How many others were infected? It could not have been just ONE person...we are talking about dozens of people that would have been exposed. What, if anything is being done to track down the person who was infected?
Did anyone consider this:
What are the symptoms of pertussis?
The first symptoms‐‐‐runny nose, sneezing, mild fever and cough‐‐‐usually appear five
to 21 days after a person is infected.
After one or two weeks, the cough gets worse and usually starts to occur in strong fits
of coughing. This may last six weeks or longer.
HB
Must have been quite a sight, from the Trimet statement:
"""People with whooping cough may have coughing spells in which they can’t catch their breath between coughs. As they catch their breath at the end of a coughing spell, they may loudly gasp (“whoop”).''''
I can imagine the shock the riders must have experienced as the driver "whooped" away then "gasped" for air. Wow...
5 to 21 days of driving a bus "whooping" that's how many buses exposed?
HB
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