A highly contagious respiratory illness is on the rise in the United States this year. Cases of whooping cough, also known as ...

Cases of the vaccine-preventable bacterial infection whooping cough have spiked in Missouri and nationwide. Cases of whooping ...

Whooping cough cases have nearly quadrupled nationwide since last year, and Oklahoma is seeing those impacts. Here's what you ...

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

Whooping cough, or pertussis, is on the rise nationwide, and it has hit closer to home in the Anne Arundel County school ...

The Fishers Health Department has received reports of "several probable or suspected" cases of pertussis, known as whooping ...

Whooping cough cases across Australia have passed 40,000 in a year for the first time since recording began more than 30 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Alabama Department of Public Health says they're investigating four outbreaks in some schools located in counties across ...

hair-like extensions called cilia that line part of the upper respiratory system and then release toxins, damaging the cilia and causing airways to swell. Whooping cough can spread easily from ...