He added that most of the whooping cough patients he's seen have been unvaccinated and that he’s noticed a decline in vaccine coverage. “We’ve seen more vaccine hesitancy and, unfortunately ...

But whooping cough can be easily prevented through vaccination, said doctors. Pregnant women who want to get the vaccine can tap a national subsidy. Doctors also encourage adults to get their ...

And the findings stress the importance of early inclusion of pregnant women in public health vaccination programs during pandemics. The research, led by Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI ...

A Dec. 10 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) claims Robert F Kennedy Jr.'s comments on vaccines have been limited to advocating for more research. "RFK is saying one thing and one thing ...

Infants, who may experience less obvious symptoms, are at the greatest risk from whooping cough. But a vaccine offered to all pregnant women and babies offers good protection against the disease ...

At one time, the U.S. reported hundreds of thousands of whooping cough cases a year, prior to the introduction of a vaccine in the 1940s. In Minnesota, pertussis cases peaked in the decade prior ...