Haywood County Health and Human Services confirmed six cases of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, in children and teens under the age of 19 in Haywood County.

Haywood County Health and Human Services confirmed five cases of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, in children and teens under the age of 19 in Haywood County.

It was 1959 and Duguay, of Clearwater, Florida, had polio. It mostly preyed on children and was one of the most feared ...

After whooping cough struck, ‘she was gone’ Every night, Katie Van Tornhout rubs a plaster cast of a tiny foot, a vestige of the daughter she lost to whooping cough at just 37 days old.

Devastating infectious diseases ran rampant in America, killing millions of children and leaving others with lifelong health problems. Over the next century, vaccines virtually wiped out long ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran rampant in America.

Their lives were forever changed by rubella, measles, polio and whooping cough, and they clearly see the value of vaccines. Now, as preventable diseases begin to make a comeback, they long to ...

A major UK-led clinical trial has found that a treatment commonly used to help premature babies breathe offers no benefit for infants on life support with severe bronchiolitis—a seasonal viral ...

A woman is charged with manslaughter a year after a 9-month-old child was given cough syrup and died at her unlicensed St. Petersburg day care, FL cops say.

Medtech Products recalled the cough syrup for toddlers, preschoolers and tweens. The Bacillus cereus bacteria can bring death, stomachaches, diarrhea and vomiting.