Here's my second good blog discovery of the day: Health & Safety Watch, which covers Canadian issues. Today it has this report from the Georgia Straight, here in Vancouver:
According to a media report, medical health officer Réka Gustafson says "there have been ▲235 cases for 2012 [in Vancouver] so far, but reported cases tend to underestimate the actual number of people who have it.” Between January and June of this year, there were 133 confirmed cases; none were reported last year during the same period.
In fact, Gustafson says that the number of cases in the community could be as much as 30 times higher than the number diagnosed via lab tests - meaning that more than 6,000 Vancouverites could be infected.
There have been more than 500 reported cases of whooping cough in the Lower Mainland this year, including approximately 300 cases in Fraser Health.
