Experts stress that maternal vaccination during pregnancy is the most effective way to protect newborns from whooping cough.

Pertussis, or whooping cough, is on the rise and incidence now exceeds pre-pandemic numbers. While in adults and older ...

When someone has whooping cough, the gasping "whoop" as they struggle to catch their breath between fits of coughing is ...

Preliminary CDC data shows 8,485 whooping cough cases reported in 2025—twice as many as this time last year. Experts link the rise to declining childhood vaccination rates and growing anti-vaccine ...

(CNN) — Whooping cough is surging in the United States, with cases now five times higher than they were at the same point last year, according to preliminary data from the US Centers for Disease ...

Whooping cough cases have increased to record levels since 2014, with four times as many cases compared to last year, data from the CDC showed. There have been more than 16,000 cases this year alone ...

As the Texas measles outbreak spirals to become the biggest since it was declared eradicated two decades ago, a second killer disease is now on the rise. The US has recorded 8,472 cases of pertussis — ...