Jenkins Middle School has emailed parents with information about the potential spread of whooping cough among seventh-grade ...

Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a highly contagious respiratory infection caused by bacteria called Bordetella pertussis.

Health care professionals have confirmed whooping cough outbreaks in West Virginia and Ohio.Four cases have been reported at ...

Whooping cough, an infection that affects the airways, easily spreads from person to person through coughing, sneezing and from particles in the air. Those infected usually will exhibit cold ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Whooping cough, a highly infectious respiratory infection that laid low in recent years, has come roaring back. In Ohio, whooping cough cases have doubled in a year ...

Babies can wind up hospitalized or even die from the bacterial infection. That’s why the recent surge in cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, should serve as a warning that we need to do more ...

Because newborns do not have a fully developed immune system, people spending time around them including parents, siblings, grandparents and baby sitters should be up to date on their whooping cough ...

Parents of many students at the Kiona-Benton City School District were warned last week of an outbreak of whooping cough ... in the illness may make the infection less serious and shorten the ...

which protects against whooping cough. "Those who are unvaccinated or too young to be vaccinated, such as infants, are at the highest risk from infection, with babies most likely to be ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The Department of Health is reporting the death of a child due to a co-infection of pertussis ... experiencing pertussis, or whooping cough, cases in multiple ...

The nation’s first incident of whooping cough was reported in southern Taiwan, while the first case of hantavirus infection was reported in the north on Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and ...