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

The state Department of Health calls the rise "staggering" and notes that it coincides with a drop in whooping cough vaccination rates among young children.

Cases of whooping cough are nearing record levels in Japan with the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria that are difficult to treat with conventional therapies.

There's an outbreak of whooping cough in Iqaluit and Pond Inlet, Nunavut, according to the territory's chief public health officer.The Department of Health announced the outbreaks in a pair of news ...

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.

A drop in vaccination rates in Washington leads to a surge in whooping cough cases, warns the Department of Health.

Health officials in Washington state are warning about a “dramatic surge” in whooping cough cases seen last year amid a decrease in vaccination rates.

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