Tuesday, May 21 2013 12:18 PM EDT2013-05-21 16:18:28 GMT
Three people were inside this burning home but managed to get out safely.
Firefighters are battling a massive fire in East Bank in Kanawha County. A house on Walnut Street went up in flames around 5:15 a.m. Firefighters said two people were home at the time but managed to
Three escape massive fire in a home on Walnut Street in Kanawha County
HUNTINGTON, West Virginia -
The symptoms of pertussis, otherwise known as whooping cough can last for a couple weeks.
"It is a very dramatic cough. You are really breathing in and a lot of times you vomit because the coughing is so severe," said Elizabeth Ayers, public information officer for the Cabell-Huntington Health Department.
She said a student at Peyton Elementary in Huntington showed symptoms of whooping cough.
"The patient lived with a confirmed case so we went ahead and treated because having symptoms," said Ayers.
Whooping cough is very contagious, spread only by sneezing or coughing in close contact with others. Because of that, the Cabell-Huntington Health Department gave out medicines to parents at Peyton Elementary whose kids may have been exposed to prevent them from getting the disease.
"No kid there have been showing any symptoms or anything like that so the chances are very low that anyone else had gotten the virus," said Ayers.
"There was no one here that was diagnosed with whooping cough, so we had no direct contact with anyone who has had whooping cough. In fact, it was a student who had a relative so it was a very good precautionary measure," said Marion Ward, Principal at Peyton Elementary.
Ward said it was business as usual at school, and health officials seem to have put parents concerns and questions to rest.
For more information on pertussis or whooping cough,
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