Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a highly contagious respiratory infection caused by bacteria called Bordetella pertussis.

For adults, the CDC recommends the Tdap vaccine every ten years. It protects against tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis, also ...

Across the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows more than 25,000 cases of whooping cough have ...

Whooping cough — highly contagious and potentially dangerous — has surged in California to levels not seen since the start of ...

Physicians who treat whooping cough are most concerned when young babies, for whom it can be life threatening get the disease ...

New Zealand has declared a whooping cough epidemic, the fourth since it became a notifiable disease in 1996.

Parents in a Montgomery County, Pennsylvania school district were alerted this week to a case of whooping cough, a bacterial ...

A Northland pediatrician fears infants in the region will die from whooping cough unless more pregnant women and young babies ...

The medical term for whooping cough is pertussis, which is a highly contagious bacterial infection that can be spread through ...

Whooping cough, or pertussis, is making a comeback and a Tennessee medical expert stressed the preventable, highly contagious ...

As temperatures begin to drop, illness often rises. One particularly contagious disease is spreading across the country at an ...