Whooping cough (or pertussis) cases are on the rise, causing concerns of a resurgence of the highly contagious disease.

The state of Louisiana, under Abraham's leadership, failed to alert physicians and the public about two whooping cough deaths ...

Ralph Lee Abraham, the Louisiana surgeon general who halted his state’s vaccine promotion campaigns and delayed warning the ...

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham promoted discredited treatments like ivermectin and, as Louisiana’s ...

Ralph Abraham, a Louisiana health official who stopped promoting mass vaccination vaccines, has been appointed as the CDC's principal deputy director ...

The resurgence of whooping cough has no single cause. Instead, several problems are occurring at once: falling vaccine coverage, only about 60% of pregnant women receiving Tdap, waning immunity, ...

Kennedy Jr., acknowledged that he directed the CDC to change its statement. Credit: AP/Rebecca Noble A new Centers for ...

Learn more about whooping cough and how a decline in vaccination rates may be contributing to a spike in cases.

More than 25,000 cases of whopping cough have been recorded in the U.S. so far this year, updated federal data shows.

In their lawsuit in response to RFK Jr.'s announcement, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of ...