Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Part of the reason whooping cough may not be in your everyday lexicon is because cases have dropped precipitously since a vaccine ...

A devastating respiratory infection once thought to be primarily a childhood concern is making an alarming comeback among adults, catching the medical community and patients completely off guard.

Whooping cough cases have been on the rise in Colorado over the past two years after a pandemic-era dip and a growing ...

Doctors are reporting increases in infectious diseases like measles, whooping cough, and rotavirus, especially in children.

Whooping cough also usually causes a low-grade fever or no fever, while RSV, particularly in high-risk adults, can cause a high fever. Timing can help too. RSV is most prevalent from late autumn to ...

Whoopingcough might sound like a disease from another era. But the illness, also called pertussis, is alive and well in the U.S. Known as a childhood illness, whooping cough is actually most common in ...

Whooping cough cases this year in the U.S. could hit numbers not seen since 1959, federal health officials warn. “We may be on track for record high cases this year,” said Dr. Anne Schuchat, director ...

ATLANTA (AP) -- A federal advisory panel wants all U.S. adults to get vaccinated against whooping cough. The panel voted Wednesday to expand its recommendation to include all those 65 and older who ...

Cases of whooping cough in adults have risen in recent years, it has been suggested ...

(The Texas Tribune) More than 3,500 cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, cases have been reported in Texas so far this year, already reaching a 11-year high even though two more highly infectious ...

Doctors nationwide are encountering more children with whooping cough, bacterial infections and other serious illnesses, as ...

When you get stuffy and come down with a nasty cough, you might assume the culprit is the common cold. Feeling seriously unwell could point you in the direction of the flu, COVID-19, or RSV ...