Health official said the increase in pertussis, also known as whooping cough, started back in September of last year.

House Bill 364 would have required school districts to submit annual vaccination reports and data about medical and religious ...

Preliminary data from the CDC says the U.S. has seen 8,485 cases of whooping cough in 2025. That's twice as many cases as ...

CDC data shows US whooping cough cases have doubled in 2025 compared to last year, raising concerns over vaccine hesitancy and declining immunization rates.

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 ...

As measles cases continue to crop up across the U.S., so too are cases of another highly contagious disease. Whooping cough, ...

Whooping cough is spread through respiratory droplets from an infected person and is mitigated by vaccination, which was ...

In the past six months, two babies in Louisiana have died of pertussis, the disease commonly known as whooping cough. Washington state recently announced its first confirmed death from pertussis ...

SULPHUR, La. (KPLC) - Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is a highly contagious respiratory infection, which can be fatal, especially in infants. “In the first stage, it doesn’t necessarily seem ...

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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Robstown Independent School District warned parents Friday of a potential case of whooping cough. In a letter sent home to parents, whooping cough was reported at the ...

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