Vaccination remains the best safeguard against whooping cough. Vaccines known as DTaP and Tdap are effective against a trio of targets: whooping cough, diphtheria and tetanus. It is important not to ...
Whooping cough or pertussis numbers across the United States are at the highest level in the last ten years, according to the ...
The CDC said there have been four-times as many cases of whooping cough as last year. This disease along with walking ...
Pertussis, commonly known as the whooping cough, is back big time. As of Oct. 5 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that preliminary data showed more than five times as many cases ...
A change in season has brought a surge in highly contagious infections like whooping cough and walking pneumonia, especially ...
The early symptoms of whooping cough sound like a normal cold but the coughs develop into ones that sound like “whoop” when ...
Cases of whooping cough, also known as pertussis, have surged to pre-pandemic levels in 2024, according to the Centers for ...
The CDC also notes that babies under 1 year of age and anyone with a compromised immune system or moderate to severe medically treated asthma have the highest risk of developing whooping cough and ...