Early signs of whooping cough in adults look very much like a common cold, Dr. Loafman says. For the first week or so of ...

Whooping cough, a severe form of cough infection ... This highly contagious pathogen spreads through respiratory droplets when an infected person coughs or sneezes. The bacterium attaches to ...

Influenza, COVID-19 and RSV are staples of the winter cold and flu season, but the measles, whooping cough and norovirus are ...

If you have a severe cough that doesn't seem to go away, you may have whopping cough. Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a highly contagious bacterial infection that affects your lungs and airways.

Two babies in Louisiana died in the past six months of a respiratory illness that doctors say is preventable. The head ...

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

When I contracted whooping cough a few years ago, I thought there must have been a mistake. Surely this antiquated disease couldn't still be active in the 21st century? But what started as a two ...

Three Shakopee Junior High School students have recently been diagnosed with pertussis, better known as whooping cough, according to a letter posted on the school’s website Tuesday. Whooping ...

A child in Spokane County died of whooping cough in November, marking the first fatality from the disease in Washington in more than a decade. The Spokane Regional Health District on Wednesday ...

The last whooping cough death occurred in 2023 in another ... “It’s just kind of that stair step of the amount of those pathogens that are circulating within our community.” ...