Vaccination remains the best safeguard against whooping cough. Vaccines known as DTaP and Tdap are effective against a trio of targets: whooping cough, diphtheria and tetanus. It is important not to ...

Five times as many cases of the potentially fatal illness have been reported so far in 2024, compared with the same time last ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Since the CDC reported more than 18,000 cases of whooping cough this year recently released, a ...

At least two students have come down with the highly contagious infection at Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa, and ...

Whooping cough is at its highest level in a decade for this time of year, U.S. health officials reported Thursday. There have ...

A woman on Reddit has shared why she wants her hypochondriac mom to get the Tdap vaccine in order to see her granddaughter.

Cases of whooping cough, also known as pertussis, are at an eight-year high in the state. The Minnesota Department of Health ...

NPR reports that the FDA is not including one of the strains of flu — B/Yamagata — in this year's recipe because covid prevention initiatives appear to have pushed it into oblivion. Meanwhile, ...

Q: I’ve been seeing a lot of news stories about whooping cough. Is there really another illness that we need worry about?

Whooping cough is another word for pertussis, a highly contagious bacterial infection that causes intense coughing fits, ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota is seeing the highest number of whooping cough cases in eight years. The state health department ...