The Mobile County Health Department has seen an increase in whooping cough cases this month especially in schools. Pertussis, ...

Louisiana is seeing an increase in Whooping cough among children with two reported deaths in the state. NBC 10’s Joel Massey ...

Young infants are at more risk because they don't get the first of six doses of the vaccine until they are two months old. So, before that, they are unprotected and more likely to die from whooping ...

Another case of “whooping cough” this winter has been linked to Ellensburg High School. Officials with the Kittitas County Public Health Department said a student at the school has tested positive for ...

Whooping cough is on the rise in US, and Oklahoma is no exception. Also referred to as pertussis, it's affected 71 Oklahomans ...

Influenza B cases in Oklahoma began rising the week ending Nov. 30, 2024, then spiraled upward on a steep curve until it peaked the week ending Jan. 1 with 5,594 cases. Only then did it began falling, ...

Unfortunately, another vaccine-preventable illness is also sickening children and adults at an increased rate over previous ...

Although in the post-Covid-19 era, pertussis incidences soared spectacularly, pertussis cases were already on the rise before ...

That marks the most fatalities from the bacterial infection since a 2017 surge of the illness, which is also known as pertussis. Over the last month, pertussis infections have been rising again.

It's shaping up to be a tough year for influenza infections as well as pertussis — whooping cough — in Greene County. The Springfield-Greene County Health department encourages residents to ...

The Spokane Regional Health District (SRHD) confirmed on Wednesday that a child under the age of 5 died in November 2024 and said that the death is the first caused by pertussis (whooping cough ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week confirmed whooping cough, or pertussis, as the cause of death, the district said online. The child received some doses of the DTaP vaccine ...