A devastating respiratory infection once thought to be primarily a childhood concern is making an alarming comeback among adults, catching the medical community and patients completely off guard.

When you get stuffy and come down with a nasty cough, you might assume the culprit is the common cold. Feeling seriously unwell could point you in the direction of the flu, COVID-19, or RSV ...

Whoopingcough might sound like a disease from another era. But the illness, also called pertussis, is alive and well in the U.S. Known as a childhood illness, whooping cough is actually most common in ...

Dr. William John Cochran was diagnosed with whooping cough in April 2009. At right, Lucy Ceresi, a nurse at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, demonstrates on Therese Pramick, left, a pertussis ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Whooping cough, a highly infectious respiratory infection that laid low in recent years, has come roaring back. In Ohio, whooping cough cases have doubled in a year, spiking from ...

Young girl coughs while wrapped in a blanket. Whooping cough can cause severe bouts of coughing. But babies, who are most vulnerable to the disease, may not cough at all. Cases of whooping cough are ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that cases of whooping cough have spiked, but are still around the same amount of illnesses from before the COVID-19 pandemic. The CDC said that ...

As measles cases continue to crop up across the U.S., so too are cases of another highly contagious disease. Whooping cough, known clinically as pertussis, has caused the death of at least five, ...