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

Callie Grace was born on Christmas Eve 2009 after Katie Van Tornhout and her husband tried for years for a baby.

This year, more than a third of whooping cough cases have been among people 11 to 19 years old. For this reason, the C.D.C. recommends that children get a booster shot at 11 or 12 years old.

It’s easy to forget how deadly whooping cough, measles, rubella, and polio once were—but for families who lost loved ones, ...

And it’s not only Australia witnessing this surge. In the United States, whooping cough cases are at their highest since 1948, with deaths reported in several states, including two infants.

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 ...

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 ...

Washington state reported 25 times as many whooping cough cases last year as the year before, according to new data that serve as a reminder of the disease's continued surge here and nationwide.

There have been more than 10,000 whooping cough cases in the United States so far this year, an unusually high number even by prepandemic standards, said Dr. Kathryn Edwards, a vaccine expert at ...

Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is a bacterial disease that can cause cold-like symptoms and severe coughing fits. It is most dangerous for people ages 1 and younger.

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Two infants in the state of Kentucky have died in the last six months from pertussis, an illness more commonly known as whooping cough. The Kentucky Department for Public Health ...

Whooping cough is making a strong comeback in the United States as data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a steep rise in reported cases. “We are seeing a significant ...