Whooping cough (pertussis) is always circulating in Australia, and epidemics are expected every three to four years. However, the numbers we’re seeing with the current surge – which started in 2024 – ...

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.

As uptake rates improve for the seventh month, more newborns are protected from whooping cough. New figures released today by ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran ...

Whooping cough activity is peaking in Japan, with more than 32,000 cases this year, while it has slowed in South Korea, where 4,500 cases have been recorded this year, but is on the rise in the US, ...

There have been more than 10,000 whooping cough cases in the United States so far this year, an unusually high number even by prepandemic standards, said Dr. Kathryn Edwards, a vaccine expert at ...

Some do not survive. However, the greatest number of cases occur ... the only sign may be a stubborn cough (the so-called "100-day" cough) that won't go away. If you have whooping cough, you may be ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Two infants in Kentucky have died from whooping cough in the last six months. State health officials confirmed the deaths Friday and said neither the infants or their ...

An infectious disease which “disproportionately” impacts young children and babies is eight times higher than expected this ...

There's an outbreak of whooping cough in Iqaluit and Pond Inlet, Nunavut, according to the territory's chief public health officer.The Department of Health announced the outbreaks in a pair of news ...

Whooping cough, scientifically known as pertussis, is experiencing a dramatic resurgence that threatens to overwhelm healthcare systems and endanger millions of adults who mistakenly believe they ...