Pertussis cases continue to pop up across Alabama as public health officials confirm a drastic increase in 2024.

More than five times as many pertussis cases had been reported as of mid-October compared with the same time last year, ...

Whooping cough can catch one off guard. Why it isn't diagnosed at an early stage has a lot to do with its early flu-like ...

Medical professionals in the Denver metro area say more families should be mindful as cases of whooping cough have tripled in ...

LANSING, Mich. — Health officials in Michigan are urging people to stay up to date with the pertussis vaccine as cases are on the rise this year. The Michigan Department of Health and Human ...

Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is on the rise nationwide. Over the past week at least three Alabama high schools have sent letters homes to parents letting them know about a confirmed ...

Cancel anytime. This 2016 illustration, based on electron microscope imagery, depicts Bordetella pertussis bacteria, which causes whooping cough. Whooping cough cases have spiked this year in ...

There is a whooping cough outbreak at the University of Cincinnati, according to the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati. The university says eight cases have been confirmed on campus this fall.

LIMESTONE CO., Ala. ( WAFF) - State health officials confirmed a whooping cough case at a school within the Tennessee Valley.

This year could shape up to be the worst year for whooping cough Washington has seen in over a decade. State health officials counted 1,193 cases of whooping cough, or pertussis, across 31 counties as ...

Whooping cough cases have jumped sharply year over year but remain in line with pre-pandemic numbers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday. The CDC, which tracks ...

Whooping cough typically starts with the sniffles, a cough, a runny nose and maybe a low-grade fever, but it can rapidly progress to coughing fits so severe that they make you throw up.