The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about pertussis, treatment for whooping cough symptoms and more.

It's whooping cough, also called pertussis. Now it's time to treat it and learn how to make sure you don't give it to others. Your doctor will likely suggest an antibiotic to kill the bacteria ...

The total number of cases in the same time frame from 2024 to 2025 have nearly doubled, rising from just over 5,000 to more ...

You may need antibiotics to treat bacterial infections, including pneumonia and whooping cough. Viral infections do not respond to antibiotics, but they may respond to some antivirals. Follow a ...

California is one of the hot spots in the country right now” for the highly contagious disease, one medical expert said.

Cases of whooping cough are climbing across the country ... but they can persist for as long as 10 weeks. The treatment for pertussis is antibiotics. There are a variety of common antibiotics ...

UC Davis is distributing the letter from the Yolo County Health and Human Services Agency, below, to share with the campus ...

Four cases of whooping cough have ... immediately for testing and treatment. A person with whooping cough is no longer contagious after taking five days of antibiotics. At the university, Student ...