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 ...

Bioactive Factors: Breast milk is rich in bioactive factors such as lactoferrin, lysozyme, and oligosaccharides. Lactoferrin ...

Respiratory Illness dashboard, hospitalizations due to influenza, COVID-19 and RSV are down — but that doesn’t mean fewer ...

Prior to a rise that started in the late 1980s and culminated in the 2012 spike, case counts had routinely been in the low triple digits since a steep decline over the 1940s and 1950s. As a result, if ...

Meanwhile, COVID activity remained low amid a shift in variant proportions and RSV levels rose in 3 US regions.

The CDC said several factors are probably contributing to a post-pandemic rise in pertussis activity. Aside from waning ...

Erie County saw its largest pertussis outbreak since at least 2012 when 15 people tested positive in September for the vaccine-preventable bacterial illness commonly known as whooping cough. By ...

Approximately 130 confirmed cases of whooping cough (pertussis) have been recorded each day on average in 2024, according to ...

This year could be a decade-high for whooping cough cases in Washington state, according to numbers by the state Department ...

Exposure to mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infection happens because of contaminated water or soil. Learn who gets severe ...

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