BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Leaders from the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) encourage residents to get vaccinated as measles and whooping cough cases rise in the U.S. Newly reappointed ...

Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is a vaccination-preventable illness that has been on the rise in the United States.

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Whooping cough is surging in the United States, with cases now five times higher than they were at the same point last year, according to preliminary data from the US Centers for Disease Control and ...

Whooping cough cases are on the rise as the vaccination rate for the highly contagious respiratory illness drops, a new ...

In an NBC News data investigation of 31 states, about 70% of counties and jurisdictions fell below the target vaccination ...

Whooping cough is highly preventable, but waning vaccine rates are leading to more outbreaks and even some infant deaths.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Like so many others, the Northern transplant flew to Florida for warmer temperatures, landed in Osceola County and stayed over 20 years. Now he’s moved on. This particular snowbird, ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that cases of whooping cough have spiked, but are still around the same amount of illnesses from before the COVID-19 pandemic. The CDC said that ...

Whoopingcough might sound like a disease from another era. But the illness, also called pertussis, is alive and well in the U.S. Known as a childhood illness, whooping cough is actually most common in ...

Phoebe Williams receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council. She is affiliated with the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases Advocacy and Policy Committee and the ...

For most parents with young children today, whooping cough is a disease that exists in vintage movies or the Burl Ives song where it causes a chicken to "sneeze his head and tail right off." But ...