A wave of whooping cough infections is continuing to worsen nationwide, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests, with weekly reported cases now accelerating to the highest ...

Whooping cough typically starts with the sniffles, a cough, a runny nose and maybe a low-grade fever, but it can rapidly progress to coughing fits so severe that they make you throw up. The infection ...

Pertussis, or whooping cough, remains a highly contagious respiratory infection caused by Bordetella pertussis. Despite inclusion of pertussis vaccines in immunization programs since the 1970s, ...

There were 14,453 laboratory confirmed cases of pertussis in England in the first 10 months of 2024 – up from 856 cases for the whole of the preceding year. The latest provisional figures from the UK ...