Whooping cough is an infection of the lungs and breathing tubes that the NHS says "spreads very easily and can be serious". It can affect any age, but is typically more severe in infants. Pregnant ...

Whooping cough is on the rise with 553 confirmed cases in England in January alone. This is compared to 858 cases for the whole of 2023, according to new data from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 10,000 cases were confirmed in the first six months of 2024 in the UK - Getty The name whooping cough might conjure up ...

The name whooping cough might conjure up images of Victorian England but the illness can strike thousands of people during outbreaks, which occur every three to five years. Surges in cases have ...

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

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

Young girl coughs while wrapped in a blanket. Whooping cough can cause severe bouts of coughing. But babies, who are most vulnerable to the disease, may not cough at all. Cases of whooping cough are ...

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 ...