The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about pertussis, treatment for whooping cough symptoms and more.

Angela Falanga's eight-week-old daughter was hospitalized for 19 days with whooping cough and was placed on a ventilator ...

California is one of the hot spots in the country right now” for the highly contagious disease, one medical expert said.

It’s not even halfway through the year, and Arizona is already on track to see the highest number of annual whooping cough ...

Whooping cough (also called pertussis or the “100-day cough”) is a respiratory infection known for the high-pitched “whoop” ...

"Whooping cough is a highly contagious respiratory disease that spreads through the air via the coughs or sneezes of an ...

Washington has seen whooping cough cases jump by over 400% from this time last year. Here are symptoms and vaccine info you ...

The whooping cough was once suppressed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, its cases are surging again. Here's what to know.

Whooping cough cases are surging in California with ... an infectious disease specialist and professor of medicine at University of California, San Francisco. Case rates are up by 35% in ...

Whooping cough cases are back on the rise. The respiratory illness has had surging case numbers in 2025, outpacing 2024's data only five months into 2025. The rising trend exists both in Tennessee ...