WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — It starts with a simple cough but can explode into a vicious string of coughing spells and “whooping” sounds. Whooping cough, or pertussis, is caused by bacteria that infects ...

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 ...

Butte-Silver Bow health department officials are stretched thin, fighting an outbreak of whooping cough that began in January. If your child is sick, and if you think it might be whooping cough, ...

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 ...

For the second year in a row, the US has surpassed 25,000 whooping cough cases — another sign of the risks of falling vaccination levels.

Whooping cough cases are back on the rise. The respiratory illness has had surging case numbers in 2025, outpacing 2024's data only five months into 2025. The rising trend exists both in Tennessee and ...

RUTHERFORD COUNTY, Tenn. (WSMV) - Parents at Oakland Middle School, Oakland High School, and at the McFadden School of Excellence have all gotten calls that there are cases of whooping cough ...

A Pasadena resident has tested positive for whooping cough, a highly contagious respiratory illness that can be lethal in infants, after visiting the Kidspace Children’s Museum last week, authorities ...

Whooping cough can have severe or deadly complications for young babies 🚨 A young baby has died from whooping cough. The UKHSA is urging pregnant women to get vaccinated. Whooping cough can have ...