Whooping cough public alert issued by SA Health after Yorke Peninsula outbreak

Whooping cough cases detected at a school on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula and in the surrounding area have prompted a public alert from SA Health.

Director of the communicable disease control branch Dr Ann Koehler said there had been 18 confirmed cases of pertussis in the region in the past month, many of them at a school.

"Whooping cough is a serious respiratory infection which is particularly dangerous in very young infants," she said.

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