What may begin like a mild cold with runny nose, sore throat or light coughcan be an indication of a far more serious infection like a whooping cough, especially in newborns. Whooping cough, also ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As measles cases continue to crop up across the U.S., so too are cases of another highly contagious disease. Whooping cough, known ...

Newswise — ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Cases of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, are on the rise in the U.S., recently reaching their highest level in 50 years. The disease can be serious or even fatal ...

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Published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the study found that ​unvaccinated children had ...

Tara Hills' Facebook profile picture. A mother who didn't believe in vaccines for years is now writing about her experience after all seven of her children became sick with whooping cough and hopes to ...

Two infants have died of whooping cough in Louisiana in the past six months, according to the surgeon general of the state’s health department. The deaths from this vaccine-preventable illness are the ...

For the second year in a row, the US has surpassed 25,000 whooping cough cases — another sign of the risks of falling vaccination levels. Often called the “100-day cough,” whooping cough or pertussis ...

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SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. -- The first whooping cough death in Washington since 2011 has been confirmed in Spokane County last week. According to Spokane Regional Health District (SRHD), a child under the ...