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

The state Department of Health calls the rise "staggering," and notes that it coincides with a drop in whooping cough vaccination rates among young children.

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

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

Pertussis infections have surged in recent months, and some people may need an additional shot for protection. By Teddy Rosenbluth After a brief lull during the pandemic, whooping cough has ...

Legislative changes in states like Maine and Colorado aim to protect vaccine access and adapt to federal policy shifts ...

Washington state reported 25 times as many whooping cough cases last year as the year before, according to new data that ...

Gavi is a public-private partnership including WHO, UNICEF, the Gates Foundation and the World Bank, and it is estimated that ...

A drop in vaccination rates statewide coincided with a steep increase in whooping cough cases, according to the Washington State Department of Health.

Cases of whooping cough increased 25-fold in Washington during 2024, though Kitsap's infection rate remained lower than state ...

The pertussis vaccine, which also protects against diphtheria and tetanus, is given at two months, four months and six months. The CDC recommends adults get follow-up doses every 10 years.

Before the vaccines, such illnesses were the main reason why nearly one in five children in 1900 never made it to their fifth ...