Whooping cough cases in Mississippi have reached a 16-year high, with 139 cases reported in 2025. Children ages 5-17 and infants under one year old are the most affected by the whooping cough outbreak ...

Every monsoon and winter, hospitals see a rise in babies struggling with severe cough, breathing trouble, or symptoms that seem like an upper respiratory tract infection or pneumonia. Many parents ...

Respiratory Syncytial Virus or RSV is one of the most common respiratory viruses circulating today. Often thought of as only being dangerous to babies and toddlers due to how often child-related RSV ...

With the common cold, flu, COVID-19 and RSV all presenting a threat of illness this fall and winter, here's how to distinguish between the symptoms of each condition.

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a viral infection affecting the lungs and respiratory tract. RSV is most common in children, causing symptoms such as a stuffy nose, sore throat, and lung mucus.

Whooping cough, medically known as pertussis, is a highly contagious bacterial infection that affects the airways. It gets its common name from the "whoop" sound that some infected children make when ...

Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is having more than a moment right now. And that is not good. Cases of the bacterial respiratory disease have increased by 58% already this year from all of ...

While influenza-like illness rates are stable and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) cases are declining, whooping cough cases have exceeded the annual total of cases reported in the past 16 years, ...