Whooping cough cases are continuing to rise in the United States, with new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

Whooping cough usually peaks every three to five years, and the latest numbers indicate a return to levels before the ...

Five times as many cases of the potentially fatal illness have been reported so far in 2024, compared with the same time last ...

Vaccination remains the best safeguard against whooping cough. Vaccines known as DTaP and Tdap are effective against a trio of targets: whooping cough, diphtheria and tetanus. It is important not to ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Since the CDC reported more than 18,000 cases of whooping cough this year recently released, a ...

Whooping cough is on the rise. There is some controversy over what might be the best vaccine strategy. For now, Tdap appears ...

When it progresses into severe disease, pertussis causes violent coughing fits punctuated by a distinct whooping sound caused ...

A case of whooping ... in people who have been exposed to it, but also children needing to be tested. At Blue Springs High School there’s a student who has contracted whooping cough.

Whooping cough — pertussis — tends to be a cyclic infection and parents have been urged to have their ... as many people do not realise that immunity to some diseases can wane over time.

Detail shot of an adult dose, bottom and child dose, top, of Pertussis (Tdap) vaccine for whooping cough photographed on fact sheets at a shot clinic provided by the Immunization Collaboration of ...