Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a bacterial infection that can cause painful coughing fits and difficulty breathing. Cases ...

After about a week, the infection can develop into coughing bouts that last a few minutes and are typically worse at night.

Public health experts are sounding the alarm as whooping cough cases increase nationwide. Numbers of cases of the ...

The U.S. is experiencing more than four times as many whooping cough cases compared with last year — a spike that some ...

MORE than 12,000 cases of whooping cough were confirmed in England in the first seven months of the year, UK Health Security ...

"Whooping cough at night, and I'm talking about 4 a.m. to 8 ... is very contagious and can be particularly dangerous for babies and young children. "The kids get into a fit of coughing and they ...

Part of me didn’t want to believe that he was talking about my tiny baby, the one lying in an incubator. Back in 2008, Spike ...

Kettering Fairmont Hight School alerted families Friday that the school received notice of a confirmed case of pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough. Pertussis is a highly contagious bacterial ...

Alaska’s state health department confirmed that an infant has died from the ongoing pertussis — or whooping cough — epidemic ...