Pertussis, or whooping cough, is on the rise and incidence now exceeds pre-pandemic numbers. While in adults and older children the cough can be bothersome and last for months, pertussis in young ...

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

Alaska’s outbreak of pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough, has now subsided, but it created some significant impacts for residents, state data shows. The outbreak ran from April 2024 to 2025.

An infant under two months old has died from pertussis, also known as whooping cough, in Mississippi. Pertussis cases in the state have sharply increased, with 115 cases reported in 2025 compared to ...

Another infant has died from pertussis, also known as whooping cough, in Kentucky.The Kentucky Department for Public Health said this was the third infant death from whooping cough in the last 12 ...

(CNN) — More adolescents being vaccinated for pertussis appears to result in fewer pertussis-related hospitalizations in infants, according to a new study published in the journal Pediatrics. “The ...

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

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

Among infants of women who received the Tdap pertussis booster vaccine during pregnancy, the risk of contracting pertussis was reduced by an estimated 91 percent during the first two months of life - ...