Whooping cough cases have gone up in the U.S. compared to last year, according to new statistics from the Centers for Disease ...

Whooping cough is surging in the United States, with cases now five times higher than they were at the same point last year, ...

In a report published Thursday, whooping cough cases were more than four times the amount at this time last year.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"If we recognize this as whooping cough, we treat it. What we're doing is we're reducing the potential severity and the potential to spread the disease." Pertussis is a bacterial infection ...

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 ...

Portland State’s game against South Dakota on Saturday was canceled because of a whooping cough case ... Pertussis is a respiratory infection that is easily spread from person to person but ...

Bartlesville Public Schools is warning parents of an outbreak of whooping cough, with nine reported ... is that since it is an antibacterial infection there are antibiotic treatments for it ...