Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

Feeling under the weather? Local health officials are tracking a variety of viruses making rounds in the community right now.

Whooping cough, also called pertussis, is marked by a severe hacking cough followed by an intake of breath that sounds like "whoop." The illness spreads from person to person through the air, carried ...

Better known as “whooping cough,” the CDC explains that it’s a bacterial respiratory disease in which the bacteria releases poisons that ... The illness is most dangerous for babies under 12 months, ...

Whooping cough continues to surge in the United States, with reported cases soaring to more than 32,000 this year - nearly five times the 6,500 cases recorded during the same period last year - ...

Of children under 1 who were hospitalized with whooping cough last year, only around 29% had gotten at least three vaccine doses, according to the CDC. The vaccine's protection fades over time.

SINGAPORE: A prolonged and painful cough that persists over several weeks – that is what those who contract whooping cough face, as opposed to those who catch the common flu. Cases of this ...

LUMBERTON, Texas — Hardin County Judge Wayne McDaniel confirms to 12News that there is a whooping cough outbreak declared in Hardin County. Hardin County Health Director Sharon Whitley told ...