A "potentially catastrophic" decline in Australia's childhood vaccination rates has contributed to the sharpest increase in cases of whooping cough in 35 years, infectious diseases experts say.

Carson City experienced a spike in pertussis cases last year that now has health officials urging residents to complete ...

Five Indigenous Yanomami infants have reportedly died from a preventable respiratory illness called pertussis, or whooping cough. The outbreak began Jan. 7 in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. San Bernardino County health officials are sounding the alarm as whooping cough cases nearly triple compared to last year, part of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although cases of whooping cough, or pertussis, are soaring nationwide, Wisconsin seems to be sidestepping another outbreak this ...

(Louisiana Illuminator) — When there’s an outbreak of a vaccine-preventable disease, state health officials typically take certain steps to alert residents and issue public updates about the growing ...

By Pooja Toshniwal Paharia As measles and pertussis cases surge across multiple states, researchers argue that the real vulnerability lies not only in individual choice but in the policies that allow ...

FLOYD COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) — The Floyd County Health Department confirmed three additional cases of pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 17 in ...

The concentrated global effort to use vaccination as a public health intervention began in 1974. Since then, vaccination has changed our lives. Worldwide, in the decades 2000–2020, childhood ...