Cascade Public Schools officials recently confirmed two cases of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, triggering outreach to families and reminders about illness protocols. According to district ...

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 ...

Parents have been urged to recognise a specific sound after the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) warned of a potentially ...

The Cascade City-County Health Department was notified of a whooping cough case in a student who attends Cascade School.

Last month, news reports confirmed that whooping cough is now an epidemic in California. Physicians have since been inundated with calls from concerned parents. As the disease spreads both in ...

Whooping cough cases are back on the rise. The respiratory illness has had surging case numbers in 2025, outpacing 2024's data only five months into 2025. The rising trend exists both in Tennessee and ...

Louisiana is seeing a surge in whooping cough cases, particularly among children, according to state health officials. The Louisiana Department of Health identified 164 cases of pertussis, known ...

Whooping cough cases are surging in California with rates returning to pre-pandemic levels, medical experts said. As of April 26, a total of 590 Californians had contracted the highly contagious ...

Cases of whooping cough have reached an 11-year-old high in Texas, according to the state’s health department. More than 3,500 cases have been reported this year, which is about for times higher than ...

Australia is battling its biggest rise in whooping cough cases in 35 years. During 2024 and 2025 Australia recorded 82,513 whooping cough cases – the highest number since monitoring began in 1991.