Whooping cough cases are rising again in the United States, fueled by falling vaccination rates and waning immunity over time. Babies who are too young to be fully vaccinated face the highest risk of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Part of the reason whooping cough may not be in your everyday lexicon is because cases have dropped precipitously since a vaccine ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although the holiday season has ended, several weeks of winter remain, so many state and local medical experts continue to ...

Cases of whooping cough are climbing across the country this year, with about 6,600 already documented — nearly four times the number at the same point last year. Given the rise in cases, I wanted to ...

A cough that lingers for two or three weeks. There is no fever, and you don't feel sluggish. But it becomes unstoppable at ...

According to the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD 2023), global mortality from pertussis between 1990 and 2023 and ...

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 ...

A new study from Zhejiang Province finds that pertussis imposes a substantial economic burden on adults over sixty, with hospitalization rates of 40.5 percent and costs driven by delayed diagnosis, ...

Total cases of whooping cough in 2025 are double compared to the same time frame in 2024, the CDC says. naipo.de via Unsplash As schools across the country release their students and the summer season ...

Newswise — When is whooping cough not whooping cough? When you’re dealing with babies, explains Sindhu Mohandas, MD, Attending Physician in Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

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

Alberta Health Services said there have been 39 reported cases of whooping cough, or pertussis, in the AHS Calgary zone since ...