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

A dangerous respiratory illness once thought to be under control is making a comeback in the U.S., and health authorities are ...

Parents with children who haven’t been vaccinated against pertussis — commonly called whooping cough — should correct that ...

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

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

“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 ...

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

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

Kathryn Alcaide watched whooping cough destroy her son's tiny body and now urges everyone to get vaccinated to protect their ...

Positive pertussis cases have decreased in Sheridan County from March to April, according to Sheridan County Public Health.

The South Central Public Health District has reported two recent cases of highly contagious pertussis—commonly known as ...

It’s not just measles making a fierce comeback in 2025. Another disease that’s especially dangerous to young children, known as pertussis or whooping cough, is spreading nearly twice ...