“Clinicians are reminded to maintain a high index of suspicion for pertussis and ensure that suspected and confirmed cases ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...