Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With the risk of whooping cough infections rising, it's a good time to make sure you're up to date on your Tdap booster, experts ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Infants are most at risk for whooping cough. (Getty Images) It’s not just measles outbreaks that are on the rise in the United ...

Tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (Tdap) are infectious bacterial diseases. Without treatment, they can lead to severe complications and may be fatal. The Tdap vaccine protects against all three ...

Diphtheria was once one of Australia’s most feared childhood infections, killing thousands of children before vaccines were available. Then for decades, it became so rare most doctors never saw a case ...

Following a several-year lull during the pandemic, cases of whooping cough are increasing across the United States. As of Nov. 30, early U.S. data show over 28,000 cases reported this year, or six ...

Swartling Peterson is a public health physician and professor at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. Pai is a public health physician and professor at the McGill School of Population and ...

With the risk of whooping cough infections rising, it's a good time to make sure you're up to date on your Tdap booster, experts say. Whooping cough (pertussis) is a highly infectious respiratory ...

It’s not just measles outbreaks that are on the rise in the United States: New cases of the respiratory infection pertussis — also known as whooping cough — are increasing as well. So far in 2025 ...

Whooping cough cases are up again in 2025, data shows.For the 48th week of the year ending Nov. 29, there were more than 25,800 cases of whooping cough in the United States in 2025. Weekly cases have ...