The Alabama Department of Public Health is seeing a 200% increase in Pertussis, or whooping cough, cases in our state. ADPH saw 41 cases in 2023. Now, District Medical Officer Dr. Wes Stubblefield ...

Arizonans with respiratory problems this fall may want to add whooping cough to the list of possible causes. Cases in the ...

"The reason why it's called whooping cough — it's a cough ... Medically known as mycoplasma pneumonia, this is a bacteria that causes respiratory tract infections, LaPook explained, adding ...

Whooping cough cases have jumped sharply year over ... to appear after an individual is exposed to the bacteria that causes whooping cough. Sometimes it can take as long as three weeks for ...

Whooping cough can spread easily from person to person, according to the CDC. The bacteria that causes the illness gets ...

Before the availability of a pertussis vaccine in the 1940s, more than 200,000 cases of whooping cough were recorded annually, and the disease was a major cause of death among U.S. children.

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

A positive case of whooping cough has been identified at Monrovia High School. School administrators have reported that they ...

Comprehensive coverage of the hexavalent vaccine can protect against whooping cough and polio, averting disease resurgence, writes Esther Nakkazi.

Experts say it usually takes 5 to 10 days for whooping cough symptoms to appear after an individual is exposed to the bacteria that causes whooping cough. Sometimes it can take as long as three ...

Arizonans who have respiratory symptoms this fall and winter may want to add whooping cough to the list of possible causes. Reported cases of whooping cough, a highly contagious and potentially ...