Many countries, including the U.S., recommend that women receive one dose of pertussis vaccine between the 27th and 36th week of every pregnancy to protect their babies. Infants younger than 6 weeks ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Parents' refusal of the pertussis shot may place kids in serious jeopardy. May 26, 2009— -- Children of parents who refuse to have their children vaccinated against whooping cough are 23 times ...

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

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Annette Regan, University of California, Los Angeles (THE CONVERSATION) Whooping cough ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The Conversation asked epidemiologist Annette Regan to explain why pertussis has ...