Although the holiday season has ended, several weeks of winter remain, so many state and local medical experts continue to recommend residents take precautions against the sick season. Influenza, ...

Whooping cough cases are rising, and doctors are bracing for yet another tough year. There have been 8,485 cases reported in 2025, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

Whooping cough cases are back on the rise. The respiratory illness has had surging case numbers in 2025, outpacing 2024's data only five months into 2025. The rising trend exists both in Tennessee and ...

A case of whooping cough was confirmed at a second Wake County public school. Leesville Road High School in North Raleigh sent an email to parents on Wednesday, April 23, saying Wake County Health & ...

Whooping cough cases in Mississippi are on the rise, already surpassing the total number reported for all of last year, according to the Mississippi State Department of Health. Whooping cough, or ...

The FDA approved the first whooping cough vaccine to be administered in pregnant people in their third trimester to prevent the infection among infants younger than 2 months old. The CDC recommends ...

Cases of whooping cough across the state have more than doubled compared to this time last year. Between January and March of this year, there have been at least 106 cases identified in North Carolina ...

A student receives a vaccine against whooping cough, also called Tdap. A Mississippi infant recently died from pertussis, or whooping cough, the State Department of Health announced Monday. It is the ...

In 1995, I was several months pregnant and working to finish a project with a firm in Los Angeles. On my flight home from California, I likely came into contact with an unvaccinated individual ...