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

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

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

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

The vaccine against whooping cough is widely available ... according to an entry on the disease in the National Library of Medicine, but deaths are very rare for anyone else.

Hospitalizations from whooping cough are most common for infants younger ... infectious diseases specialist at Southern Illinois University Medicine and medical advisor to Sangamon County Health ...

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 ...