Within one to two weeks, the cough becomes more intense — harsh, violent fits that leave you gasping for air. Sometimes, a ...

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

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

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, ...

NEW YORK — As the U.S. wrestles with its biggest whooping cough outbreak in decades, researchers appear to have zeroed in on the main cause: The safer vaccine that was introduced in the 1990s ...

Vaccination rates for whooping cough fell from 73% in 2019 to 65% last year among children between 1.5 and 3 years old, DOH said Friday. "The surge in pertussis cases is a stark reminder of how ...

According to the state’s recent annual summary on whooping cough, or pertussis, there were 2,261 confirmed and probable cases in Washington in 2024. There were 87 cases in 2023.

A drop in vaccination rates statewide coincided with a steep increase in whooping cough cases, according to the Washington State Department of Health (DOH). The DOH Annual Pertussis Update shows ...