The U.S. is experiencing more than four times as many whooping cough cases compared with last year — a spike that some ...

Whooping cough cases are climbing at the fastest pace in years as students across America return to school, U.S. heal ...

Public health experts are sounding the alarm as whooping cough cases increase nationwide ... The most common complication of an infection is pneumonia, which can be fatal. Before the introduction ...

Health authorities are urging at-risk Tasmanians to get vaccinated against the highly infectious illness, as the state is in ...

Amid a nationwide resurgence, whooping cough cases are on the rise in Iowa City. The infection commonly known as whooping cough is impacting University of Iowa students and Iowa City residents.

Health officials are urging parents and caregivers to make sure their children are up-to-date with routine vaccines as cases of whooping ... severe infection, and they don’t always cough and ...

Vaccination in pregnancy is key to passively protecting babies before they can be directly protected by the infant vaccine programme Whooping cough is a bacterial infection of the lungs and ...

Whooping cough is a highly contagious respiratory disease also known as pertussis. It's a bacterial infection that can cause violent, uncontrollable coughing that can make it difficult to breathe.

Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a highly contagious respiratory tract infection. It causes lengthy and repeated bouts of coughing, which can sometimes lead to infected individuals making a ...

The sound of whooping cough ... up to three weeks after the cough begins. Health officials said if people are treated with the appropriate antibiotics early in the infection period, treatment ...

This year, however, there have been 10,865 cases of whooping cough, with 1,571 cases recorded in Pennsylvania alone. It’s a “highly contagious respiratory tract infection,” the Mayo Clinic ...