With the risk of whooping cough infections rising, it's a good time to make sure you're up to date on your Tdap booster, experts say. Whooping cough (pertussis) is a highly infectious respiratory ...
It’s highly infectious and definitely not a welcome holiday guest. Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is on the rise with outbreaks across the country, leaving some parents of infants wondering ...
Two Kentucky infants died from whooping cough in the past six months, the first such deaths since 2018. Neither infant nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations. Kentucky has ...
Two infants in the state of Kentucky have died in the last six months from pertussis, an illness more commonly known as whooping cough.The Kentucky Department for Public Health made the announcement ...
Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a highly contagious respiratory infection caused by bacteria called Bordetella pertussis. The infection attacks the lining of the breathing passages. People can get ...
The Arizona Department of Health Services attributes one death in the state to whooping cough in 2025, a 19-month-old ...
Mississippi has seen more whooping cough cases in 2025 than it has in the previous 16 years. Are flu-like illness rates and ...
Whoopingcough might sound like a disease from another era. But the illness, also called pertussis, is alive and well in the U.S. Known as a childhood illness, whooping cough is actually most common in ...
What do we all need to know about whooping cough (pertussis)? WebMD asked epidemiologist Tom Clark, MD, MPH, of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. What is whooping ...
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Seeing your little one coughing continuously, especially when sleeping, can be a worry for parents. This condition certainly makes Parents curious about how to deal with coughing in children while ...