The United States has recorded over 32,000 whooping cough cases this year, compared with around 5,100 as of mid-December last ...

Vaccines are a big deal. A landmark study published in The Lancet this spring calculated global vaccination efforts targeting 14 pathogens since 1974 had averted 154 million deaths due to disease and ...

There have been over 32,000 cases of whooping cough recorded in the U.S. in 2024 so far, the highest annual total in a decade ...

Flashforward to 2024 and there’s an outbreak of a different, highly contagious and serious respiratory disease affecting ...

This year, in addition to more familiar respiratory viruses like influenza, RSV and SARS-CoV-2, local health experts are also ...

Plus, a look back at the internet trends and memes that defined 2024, from 'brat summer' and 'brain rot,' to ...

No major health crisis afflicts California today, but elections have consequences (as ex-President Barack Obama once said) and such a crisis now stands a good chance to become one of them. That is ...

Some infectious diseases saw a huge surge in 2024, with the spread attributed in part to climate change, declining ...

The Southside Health District is monitoring an increase in reported cases of pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough. SSHD staff are collaborating closely with local healthcare providers to ...

The woman was stopped at Los Angeles International Airport while attempting to board a flight to Philadelphia, the ...

The Kittitas County Public Health Department (KCPHD) received notification of a positive pertussis (also known as whooping ...

Former President Bill Clinton has been hospitalized in Washington after developing a fever, a top aide told NBC News on ...