
{"id":24610,"date":"2012-03-22T10:23:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T14:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=24610"},"modified":"2012-03-21T16:51:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T20:51:39","slug":"whooping-cough-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/03\/22\/whooping-cough-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Whooping cough in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six recent cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, have been reported at Carrboro and Mary Scroggs elementary schools. <\/p>\n<p>Whooping cough is a highly contagious infection of the respiratory system characterized by severe coughing spells. When the person inhales after coughing, a &#8220;whooping&#8221; sound is emitted. Other symptoms include sneezing, a runny nose and a low-grad fever. Babies and pregnant women are most particularly at risk. Generally after one to two weeks, a minor cough will advance to heavy coughing spells lasting a minute or more. <\/p>\n<p>The Orange County Health Department urges you to contact your doctor if you are concerned your child has whooping cough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six recent cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, have been reported at Carrboro and Mary Scroggs elementary schools. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24619,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24610\/revisions\/24619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}