For the second year in a row, the US has surpassed 25,000 whooping cough cases — another sign of the risks of falling ...

MORGANTOWN — Two West Virginia University physicians are encouraging people to recognize the early symptoms of pertussis, or ...

A nationwide surge in pertussis cases has resulted in the deaths of infants in several states across the country this year, from Kentucky to Oregon. A UT Health San Antonio infectious diseases ...

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 ...

Then, about a week or two weeks into the illness, the cough changes, and it gets worse and worse and worse,” Wellington added ...

The Floyd County Health Department confirmed three additional cases of pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough, bringing ...

Over the last few years, the U.S. has experienced a troubling resurgence of pertussis, also known as whooping cough.

Deaths from this entirely preventable disease are rising -- as cases hit almost 28,000 in the USCases of whooping cough are ...

Kate and Greg Moor weren’t thinking “whooping cough” when their son, 13-year-old Joe, started having coughing fits in early March. Joe probably just had a late winter virus, the Bloomfield Hills, ...

FLOYD COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - The Floyd County Health Department announced Tuesday, Dec. 30 that they have identified 3 ...

Pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough, is an infectious disease that can cause serious and potentially life-threatening complications, especially in infants and young children, according to the ...