Whooping Cough Spreads in Johnson County (KS)

When Susan Sukstorf read an urgent note reporting a case of whooping cough at her son’s middle school, she tossed it aside with little worry.

"Oh, some kid didn’t get their vaccination. That really stinks for them," she remembers thinking.

Days later the Olathe mom was calling the car pool parents, her 14-year-old son’s best friends and the staff at Frontier Trail Middle School to warn them. A laboratory test — completed only because she casually told her son’s doctor that he had bunked with the ill student at a school trip — confirmed he had whooping cough.

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