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

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...

The seasonal increase in norovirus cases is tied to colder months, when people gather indoors more frequently, especially for the holidays. Experts believe the pandemic-era reduction in outbreaks 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 ...

That includes a resurgence in the DMV. “So whooping cough is caused by the pertussis bacteria. It’s actually a vaccine preventable disease. And I really didn’t think I would see a lot of ...

Oklahoma is seeing a rise in Whooping Cough ... population.” The cough can last an average of 100 days and, for infants to toddlers, can do damage. “Younger infants under age one can get ...

As cases of whooping ... cough cases this year. "Probably a lot of different reasons," she said. "One is we’ve seen a decline in vaccination that provides protection against this type of ...

Pertussis — or whooping cough — is also circulating in the community, and Emily Dickinson Elementary School asked parents to pick up their kids as soon as possible Thursday due to rising ...

He was later transferred to Providence Sacred Heart in Spokane, where doctors determined he had whooping cough. "It's much less problematic in older kids or adults. Kids under a year, especially ...

Whooping cough ... free whooping cough vaccines: Pregnant women from 20 weeks for each pregnancy – this vaccine will pass on protection to their newborns. Babies under six months during their ...