The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) yesterday said that 35 cases of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, were reported ...

It was 1959 and Duguay, of Clearwater, Florida, had polio. It mostly preyed on children and was one of the most feared ...

It’s a sound no parent wants to hear—that relentless cough that just won’t go away. Now, health officials are warning of a ...

Weekly cases of whooping cough have hit a record high in Japan. Whooping cough is an infectious bacterial disease ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often became disabled or lost their lives to whooping cough, ...

These illnesses were the main reason why nearly one in five children in 1900 never made it to their fifth birthday. Over the ...

Four cases of measles were recently reported in the commonwealth, prompting health officials to discuss the importance of ...

It’s easy to forget how deadly whooping cough, measles, rubella, and polio once were—but for families who lost loved ones, ...