The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services is warning about an uptick in whooping cough cases across the state this year.
Virginia is seeing one of the biggest spikes: from 66 cases last year to nearly 400 cases in 2024, five times the rate.
"People have coughed so hard they've actually broken ribs with pertussis. So, definitely that's not something that we like to see." said Dr. Huse.
Nebraska has seen 35 cases of whooping cough so far in 2024, which is almost triple the amount of cases seen in 2023 with just 13 reports.