A surge in a 'Victorian' disease is leaving a trail of dead unvaccinated babies, prompting a grave warning to parents.
Federal data shows more than 25,000 cases have been recorded so far this year, the second consecutive year of unusually high ...
West Virginia officials suspended a school vaccination mandate Wednesday after a judge ruled that parents can cite religious ...
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 ...
U.S. Sen. Jim Justice of West Virginia agrees to pay nearly $5.2M in overdue personal taxes Doctors Say This Nighttime ...
An infant in Kentucky who was unvaccinated against pertussis, or whooping cough, has died, marking the third death from the ...
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, ...
Learn more about whooping cough and how a decline in vaccination rates may be contributing to a spike in cases.
Rates of whooping cough (pertussis) are rising in the US as fewer children are being vaccinated. Official data showed 35 493 cases of the disease in the US in 2024, a fivefold increase from 7063 in ...