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

The total number of cases in the same time frame from 2024 to 2025 have nearly doubled, rising from just over 5,000 to more ...

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.

Whooping cough, or pertussis, is on the rise again in the United States, and the number of cases in 2025 are nearly double what they were for this same period last year, according to the Centers ...

Kathryn Alcaide watched whooping cough ... fever, cough — but become more severe 5 to 10 days after infection. The telltale sign is a high-pitched noise that sounds like a "whoop" when a child ...

A Pasadena resident has tested positive for whooping cough, a highly contagious respiratory illness that can be lethal in infants, after visiting the Kidspace Children’s Museum last week ...

Louisiana has reported two infant deaths from whooping cough in 2025, the first deaths since 2018. The state has seen 164 cases of whooping cough this year, the highest number in 35 years.

Louisiana is seeing a surge in whooping cough cases, particularly among children ... causing them to take deep breaths that make a “whooping” sound. The disease spreads from person to person ...

Cases of whooping cough are climbing across the country this year, with about 6,600 already documented — nearly four times the number at the same point last year. Given the rise in cases ...

Cases of whooping cough are climbing across the country this year, with about 6,600 already documented — nearly four times the number at the same point last year. In 2024, there were more than 35,000 ...

MONROE COUNTY, Pa. — Doctors are bracing for another year of rising cases of whooping cough. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 8,500 cases have been reported ...

Whooping cough, a bacterial infection that can be especially dangerous for babies and young children, is on the rise. Already in 2025 the U.S. has recorded 8,485 cases. That's compared with 4,266 ...