One difficulty the city faces is the wide range of vaccination rates for the disease. In come parts of Milwaukee, it's as low as 20%.

Thirty percent of respondents don't know that pertussis is the same as whooping cough or that it is vaccine-preventable.

Antibiotics should be used judiciously to prevent further resistance and side effects. Please consult your pediatrician prior to use. Whooping cough is very contagious, which means that it spreads ...

Veterans Affairs clinics, quarterly antibiotic use reports and adverse event letters were linked to lower antibiotic ...

Canadian health officials say they're seeing spikes in whooping cough cases in parts of the country as the U.S. deals with ...

Canadian health officials say they're seeing spikes in whooping cough cases in parts of the country as the U.S. deals with ...

Vaccines are a big deal. A landmark study published in The Lancet this spring calculated global vaccination efforts targeting ...

Whooping cough can cause symptoms including severe bouts of coughing. But babies, who are most vulnerable to the disease, may not cough at all.

Violent coughing can last a month. Whooping cough is back. A Cincinnati Children's infectious disease expert tells us what to ...