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 ...

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

Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is a respiratory illness that is spread easily from person to person through the air.

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

Whooping cough in children: Young children require attentive care, as inadequate attention can lead to serious health risks. Recent research indicates that whooping cough poses a significant threat to ...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - Medical experts provided tips on how to protect your children from increasing cases of whooping cough in West Virginia. Dr. Michael Kilkenny, CEO and Health Officer of the ...

SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. -- The first whooping cough death in Washington since 2011 has been confirmed in Spokane County last week. According to Spokane Regional Health District (SRHD), a child under the ...

Health officials are urging caution for parents and guardians of Springboro Schools children and are being told to monitor their children after district officials Wednesday learned there has been a ...

As Texas grapples with an ongoing measles outbreak, the state is also on pace to see its highest number of whooping cough cases in more than a decade. Texas has reported 1,064 cases of pertussis, ...

MONROE, La. (KTVE / KARD)–Louisiana is seeing an increase in Whooping cough among children with two reported deaths in the ...

Vaccine hesitancy fed by misinformation is causing new surges of measles and whooping cough, while COVID-19 hotspots persist ...

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 ...