The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota says, symptoms usually begin like a cold, with a runny nose, fever, and cough, but ...

The recent surge in cases of pertussis, or whooping cough — five times the number of infections last year as the year before ...

Whooping cough is annoying, but tolerable, for most adults. But for infants, the disease can be serious, even deadly.

If you’ve heard the telltale cough and seen an infant gasp for breath, it’s easy to understand why a pertussis outbreak strikes fear in a parent’s heart. Babies can wind up hospitalized or even die ...

If you've heard the telltale cough and seen an infant gasp for breath, it's easy to understand why a pertussis outbreak strikes fear in a parent's heart. Babies can wind up hospitalized or even die ...

Should elderly people living with persons with respiratory conditions, and elderly persons with respiratory conditions, be ...

The C-D-C says whooping cough cases are the highest they've seen in a decade in the U-S. And we're not immune to the problem ...

If you’ve heard the telltale cough and seen an infant gasp for breath, it’s easy to understand why a pertussis outbreak strikes fear in a parent’s heart.

Infants typically receive the vaccine in a three-dose series of DTap shots between two and six months of age, then two more boosters by age 6. Adolescents and adults should get a Tdap booster every 10 ...

It's not too late to get a shot for influenza or COVID-19, both of which are expected to increase in the coming weeks.

T his week, the Deschutes County Health Department noted an upward trend in cases of the flu and whooping cough in Central Oregon, compared to previous years. Deschutes County Pub ...

But that’s not always how serious illness plays out. Children who need to be on ventilators, have tracheostomies or ...