Whooping cough cases are continuing to rise in the United States, with new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

Whooping cough usually peaks every three to five years, and the latest numbers indicate a return to levels before the ...

Vaccination remains the best safeguard against whooping cough. Vaccines known as DTaP and Tdap are effective against a trio of targets: whooping cough, diphtheria and tetanus. It is important not to ...

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

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Since the CDC reported more than 18,000 cases of whooping cough this year recently released, a ...

Q: I’ve been seeing a lot of news stories about whooping cough. Is there really another illness that we need worry about?

Whooping cough is another word for pertussis, a highly contagious bacterial infection that causes intense coughing fits, ...

Whooping cough is on the rise. There is some controversy over what might be the best vaccine strategy. For now, Tdap appears ...

When it progresses into severe disease, pertussis causes violent coughing fits punctuated by a distinct whooping sound caused ...

Detail shot of an adult dose, bottom and child dose, top, of Pertussis (Tdap) vaccine for whooping cough photographed on fact sheets at a shot clinic provided by the Immunization Collaboration of ...