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, ...

Federal watchdog says infections remain unusually high for a second consecutive year; infants most at risk as multiple states ...

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention amended its website to suggest that childhood vaccines (MMR) may cause autism.

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

Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a highly contagious respiratory infection that is being seen more across the U.S. due in ...

A third infant has died from whooping cough in Kentucky within the past 12 months, state health officials announced.

After a positive case of whooping cough in Barton County, health professionals are offering advice to stay protected ahead of ...