Whooping cough is a highly contagious bacterial infection caused by Bordetella pertussis. Symptoms typically begin like a common cold, with a mild fever, sneezing and coughing.

You cough up blood; If you do have whooping cough, antibiotics taken within the first three weeks can help stop it from spreading to others but are unlikely to help ease any symptoms.

Adults often have much milder symptoms of whooping cough. But it’s often the older siblings, parents, and grandparents who transmit whooping cough to babies. It can have lethal consequences.

Wohrley said Deaconess has seen nine cases of whooping cough in the Tri-State area in the past 12 months with the majority requiring hospitalization — when the usual number is one or two.

This year, more than a third of whooping cough cases have been among people 11 to 19 years old. For this reason, the C.D.C. recommends that children get a booster shot at 11 or 12 years old.

Whooping cough, also called pertussis, is a respiratory disease caused by Bordetella pertussis bacteria. It causes rapid, ...

Wohrley said Deaconess has seen nine cases of whooping cough in the Tri-State area in the past 12 months with the majority requiring hospitalization — when the usual number is one or two.

Wohrley said Deaconess has seen nine cases of whooping cough in the Tri-State area in the past 12 months with the majority requiring hospitalization — when the usual number is one or two.

Wohrley said Deaconess has seen nine cases of whooping cough in the Tri-State area in the past 12 months with the majority requiring hospitalization — when the usual number is one or two.

Wohrley said Deaconess has seen nine cases of whooping cough in the Tri-State area in the past 12 months with the majority requiring hospitalization — when the usual number is one or two.

EVANSVILLE — The Tri-State is seeing an increase in cases of whooping cough, an illness that is extremely contagious and spreads easily. But it's also easily preventable, according to information ...