The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has assembled nearly 200 stories and dozens of testimonials on the horrors of vaccine-preventable deaths and illnesses that pediatricians have encountered over ...

Polk County’s level of immunization for kindergartners dropped from 96.3% in 2021 to 93.2% in 2023, still above the statewide rate of 90.6%.

Within a day, the child was dead, felled by pneumococcus meningitis ... are based on reports from public and private schools. Whooping cough: Cases in Florida increase eightfold from 2023 to ...

The DTaP vaccine, for example, contains three antigens (diphtheria, tetanus, and whooping cough), and it is given a total of five ... most vaccines, therefore, use dead infective agents. The ...

The U.S. confirmed at least a dozen deaths from whooping cough last year, according to preliminary figures released this week ...

Washington saw a high number of whooping cough cases in 2024, with more than 2,000 reported, according to the state Department of Health.

Health officials have confirmed the first pertussis, also called whooping cough, death in Washington since 2011.

A child from Spokane County has died from whooping cough, marking the first pertussis-related death in Washington since 2011.