Federal data shows more than 25,000 cases have been recorded so far this year, the second consecutive year of unusually high ...

Pertussis, better known as “Whooping Cough,” has hit nearly 15 cases in the Mid-Ohio Valley according to the Public Information Officer of the Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department, Amy Phelps. Whooping ...

Kentucky has reported its third infant death from whooping cough in the past year, state health officials announced on Monday ...

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

Infections happen year-round, but peak whooping cough season lasts from late summer through fall. Pertussis is a cyclical disease, meaning it might spread widely through a community and then disappear ...

An infant has died from whooping cough in Kentucky, the third such instance in the past 12 months, state health officials said Monday. The infant and their mother were not vaccinated against ...

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

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, ...

As whooping cough cases in Kentucky continue to rise, the state’s Department for Public Health is reporting a third pertussis ...

Sexually transmitted diseases are trending up in Cape Girardeau County, according a biannual report published by the Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center. Chlamydia rates are climbing higher in ...

Just four months into 2025, Washington had already recorded more cases of pertussis, better known as whooping cough, than it had in all but three full years since 1960. But as alarming as that number ...