Whooping cough cases are on the rise as the vaccination rate for the highly contagious respiratory illness drops, a new investigation has found. Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is caused by a ...

Among the many contagious diseases circulating right now — RSV, walking pneumonia and norovirus among them — is one that you may not have heard of for a while, or perhaps had assumed was an illness of ...

San Bernardino County sees a sharp rise in whooping cough as low vaccination rates raise statewide concern.

Preliminary CDC data shows 8,485 whooping cough cases reported in 2025—twice as many as this time last year. Experts link the rise to declining childhood vaccination rates and growing anti-vaccine ...

Deaths linked with whooping cough are rare, but when they occur, most are in infants.

Parents on Wednesday were notified of a whooping cough case at a Wake County school. According to the Wake County Public School System, Leesville Road High School sent a letter to parents stating the ...

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy , and give us feedback . More than 3,500 cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, cases have been ...

Four children died from measles and whooping cough, preventable diseases. Sen. Bill Cassidy and other health officials advocate for vaccinations. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine ...

OR ENERGY DRINKS. UPDATED FEDERAL DATA SHOWS THAT THERE HAVE BEEN MORE THAN 25,000 CASES OF WHOOPING COUGH IN THE UNITED STATES SO FAR THIS YEAR. IT IS THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW WITH A HIGHER THAN ...

The Arizona Department of Health Services attributes one death in the state to whooping cough in 2025, a 19-month-old ...