A research team in Dublin believes it has found a way to stop whooping cough not only from making people sick, but from spreading quietly through communities at all. Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a ...

A recent commentary argues that US measles and pertussis outbreaks are not simply the result of vaccine hesitancy but reflect weakened immunization policies, permissive exemptions, and underfunded ...

The Cascade City-County Health Department was notified of a whooping cough case in a student who attends Cascade School.

If a person is severely ill with whooping cough, the CDC advises that they may need to be admitted to the hospital so that medical providers can monitor their breathing and give them oxygen and fluids ...

Texas reported more cases of whooping cough last year than anytime in the last 66 years, according to provisional data from ...

In 2024, Germany recorded the highest number of whooping cough cases since reporting became mandatory in the year 2013. With almost 122 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, infants under one year of age ...

The state health department logged more whooping cough cases last year than in any year in the past six decades.

Childhood immunisation rates in Australia are at a 10 year low, as the nation emerges from a record breaking surge in whooping cough cases. Australia reported more than 57 000 cases of pertussis in ...

To protect children against whooping cough, doctors recommend five shots of vaccine before they turn 7. But what happens after that? How long does the protection last? Researchers at the Kaiser ...

Whooping cough cases are up again in 2025, data shows.For the 48th week of the year ending Nov. 29, there were more than 25,800 cases of whooping cough in the United States in 2025. Weekly cases have ...