Whooping cough cases are on the rise as the vaccination rate for the highly contagious respiratory illness drops, a new investigation has found. Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is caused by a ...

Two Louisiana babies have died with whooping cough this year as the state trends toward a record number of cases in 2025, the Department of Health reported Friday. The agency said it has confirmed 164 ...

It's been a busy respiratory illness season for doctors in Central California. But that's not the only sickness that doctors ...

Preliminary CDC data shows 8,485 whooping cough cases reported in 2025—twice as many as this time last year. Experts link the rise to declining childhood vaccination rates and growing anti-vaccine ...

Mississippi has seen more whooping cough cases in 2025 than it has in the previous 16 years. Are flu-like illness rates and ...

LOUISIANA, USA — State health officials say no new measles cases have been detected across the state. Doctors say if small children or infants get whooping cough, it could be fatal. The Louisiana ...

What do we all need to know about whooping cough (pertussis)? WebMD asked epidemiologist Tom Clark, MD, MPH, of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. What is whooping ...

Deaths linked with whooping cough are rare, but when they occur, most are in infants.

Four children died from measles and whooping cough, preventable diseases. Sen. Bill Cassidy and other health officials advocate for vaccinations. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine ...

Whooping cough is on the rise in the Inland Empire, where Riverside and San Bernardino county officials say numbers are up from previous years. Whooping cough cases have tripled in San Bernardino ...

Parents' refusal of the pertussis shot may place kids in serious jeopardy. May 26, 2009— -- Children of parents who refuse to have their children vaccinated against whooping cough are 23 times ...

A devastating respiratory infection once thought to be primarily a childhood concern is making an alarming comeback among adults, catching the medical community and patients completely off guard.