Vaccination remains the best safeguard against whooping cough. Vaccines known as DTaP and Tdap are effective against a trio of targets: whooping cough, diphtheria and tetanus. It is important not to ...

Five times as many cases of the potentially fatal illness have been reported so far in 2024, compared with the same time last ...

Whooping cough cases are continuing to rise in the United States, with new data from the US Centers for Disease Control and ...

Whooping cough is at its highest level in a decade for this time of year, U.S. health officials reported Thursday. There have ...

Q: I’ve been seeing a lot of news stories about whooping cough. Is there really another illness that we need worry about?

Whitman County Public Health reported ten additional cases of whooping cough within Washington State University (WSU) and the ...

Cases of whooping cough have dramatically surged in 2024, returning to pre-pandemic trends. According to the Centers for ...

Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is a serious illness. It’s highly contagious, can leave you with a hacking cough for ...

"This is an infection that causes quite a significant cough," says Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse, a pediatric infectious diseases ...

California is grappling with a substantial whooping cough outbreak, primarily among school-age children.  The state’s Department of Public Health recorded 1,498 cases as of August, the most recent ...

Pertussis, commonly known as the whooping cough, is back big time. As of Oct. 5 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that preliminary data showed more than five times as many cases ...