As the new year begins, there’s no shortage of contagious viruses making kids sneeze, wheeze and cough. So, how do you know if your child is suffering from a ...

California is seeing a rise in cases of whooping cough, a highly contagious bacterial disease that can cause severe illness, ...

State health officials are calling on residents, especially pregnant women and those who care for infants, to have an updated Tdap vaccination as cases of whooping cough increase in California.

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

Covid, flu, whooping cough and norovirus among the conditions most frequently seen as families and friends gather to ...

Covid, RSV and the flu are getting a lot of attention right now, but health experts say there is another respiratory ...

Researchers have come up with a new way to identify more infectious variants of viruses or bacteria that start spreading in humans -- including those causing flu, COVID, whooping cough and ...

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 ...

Local news offers us another reason to avoid crowds and/or germ-y younger relatives . . . There's a nasty bug circulating that has moved from rural areas into the urban core.

Learn more about whooping cough cases in the U.S., which are rising to pre-pandemic rates as pandemic restrictions are ...