Rates of the bacterial infection have gone up by 500% since last year, with babies and young children most at risk.

The county in 2025 already has reported a total of 30 confirmed cases of pertussis, commonly called whooping cough, nearly ...

It’s not just measles making a fierce comeback in 2025. Another disease that’s especially dangerous to young children, known ...

Ecuador has mandated mask-wearing in schools across provinces like Guayas, Manabí, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Guayaquil, ...

Vaccinating pregnant women against whooping cough significantly enhances the protection of newborns in their early months, a ...

“Pertussis classically in the beginning looks like a cold and then turns into a very bad cough that leads to these, kind of, paroxysms of coughing,” Berry said. “In very young children, it tends to ...

As Texas grapples with an ongoing measles outbreak, the state is also on pace to see its highest number of whooping cough ...

Whooping cough, or pertussis, is on the rise again in the United States, and the number of cases in 2025 are nearly double ...

Vaccinating pregnant women against whooping cough can boost the quantity and quality of antibodies in the early life of ...

Louisiana reports a sharp rise in whooping cough, with 164 cases so far in 2025, mostly affecting infants and causing two ...