A health worker prepares a pertussis, or whooping cough, vaccine, in this undated file photo. Whatcom County health officials are managing a cluster of pertussis cases amid a general increase in the ...

Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is a vaccination-preventable illness that has been on the rise in the United States. Following a several-year lull during the pandemic, cases of whooping cough ...

Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is a respiratory illness that is spread easily from person to person through the air.

Pertussis cases dropped during the pandemic, then surged back across several countries, but Japan’s delayed 2025 outbreak stood out for its scale and its heavy impact on older children and teens. The ...

Texas reported more cases of whooping cough last year than anytime in the last 66 years, according to provisional data from the state health department. This peak comes as vaccination rates among ...

The concentrated global effort to use vaccination as a public health intervention began in 1974. Since then, vaccination has changed our lives. Worldwide, in the decades 2000–2020, childhood ...

Whatcom County health officials are managing a cluster of pertussis cases amid a general increase in the highly contagious respiratory aliment that can be extremely painful and sometimes proves fatal.