Whooping cough cases are continuing to rise in the United States, with new data from the US Centers for Disease Control and ...

The highly infectious respiratory disease is circulating through the US and Oklahoma. Here's what to know about the spread ...

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

Cases of whooping cough, also known as pertussis, have surged to pre-pandemic levels in 2024, according to the Centers for ...

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

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday that whooping cough cases for this time of year hit their ...

According to the CDC, there have been 844 cases of confirmed whooping cough – also called pertussis – through Oct. 5 in ...

The early symptoms of whooping cough sound like a normal cold but the coughs develop into ones that sound like “whoop” when ...

Whooping cough (pertussis ... the diagnosis is often missed because the dry cough may be mistaken for a virus,” Siegel said. Adults can be treated with doxycycline, a type of antibiotic that ...

While the whooping cough vaccine is given during childhood, Placzek says adults should be getting ... "Due to mainly vaccination and also good treatment and identification of cases by health ...

There has been a fourfold increase in whooping cough cases in the USA this season ... and exhaustion. With the right treatment, the severity of the symptoms is reduced, but if not treated in ...

Early treatment could make the illness less ... prevents nine in 10 babies from being hospitalized with whooping cough, per the CDC. Adults getting the Tdap vaccine for the first time should ...