When it comes to seasonal illnesses, few are as dreaded - or as preventable - as whooping cough. The violent coughing fits, the struggle to breath, and the high pitched "whoop" sound that some people ...
Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a bacterial infection that can cause painful coughing fits and difficulty breathing. Cases ...
With the region in the middle of a pertussis outbreak, there is help available, Panhandle Health District officials said. And ...
Advice from the NHS as to what exactly that cough means, and when you should head to your GP, or even the hospital ...
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) is reporting a significant increase in cases of pertussis, also known as ...
Whooping cough cases have gone up in the U.S. compared to last year, according to new statistics from the Centers for Disease ...
Infectious diseases experts say many Americans fell behind on their whooping cough vaccinations during the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
As of September 12, there have been 708 cases of pertussis in Minnesota, according to MDH. Last year there were 61.
14,569 cases of whooping cough have been reported in total for 2024 so far — four times higher than the agency's reported ...
Whooping cough cases are on the rise in the United States.There have been over 14,000 cases this year. That’s the highest in a decade.Dating back to 2014, more teens and young adults are being ...
The total number of cases reported to the state has reached 286, the most since the last epidemic of 2012. Public health officials say case numbers are rising in Anchorage, but falling statewide.
Whooping cough cases are rising fast nationwide, with four times as many cases this year compared to last year so far. Health officials say they know why.