Whooping cough (pertussis) is always circulating in Australia, and epidemics are expected every three to four years. However, the numbers we’re seeing with the current surge – which started in 2024 – ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran rampant in America ...

Last year, following an outbreak the state had not seen in years, Kentucky ultimately reported 543 cases of whopping cough.

Kentucky reports 2 babies dead from whooping cough, or pertussis cases. These are the symptoms in adults, children and infants. What to do if you have it.

It’s a sound no parent wants to hear—that relentless cough that just won’t go away. Now, health officials are warning of a ...

As uptake rates improve for the seventh month, more newborns are protected from whooping cough. New figures released today by ...

Young babies are at highest risk of severe complications and death from whooping cough. 11 babies tragically died in England ...

Whooping cough, which is a bacterial illness, “can be seasonal” as it peaks in late summer and early fall, said Dr. Anna ...

There's an outbreak of whooping cough in Iqaluit and Pond Inlet, Nunavut, according to the territory's chief public health officer. The Department of Health announced the outbreaks in a pair of news ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Health officials in Washington and Oregon are warning the public about a sharp rise in pertussis cases, also known as whooping cough, and urging people to stay current on their ...