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 ...

Pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough, is an infectious disease that can cause serious and potentially life-threatening complications, especially in infants and young children, according to the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This year has seen record-high cases of ...

Whooping cough cases in North Carolina have risen sharply in 2024. There have been close to 600 reported cases — 6.4 times more than last year at this time. Nationally, cases are 4.8 times higher, ...

Whooping cough cases are on the rise in the United States, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For the week ending April 12, at least 8,064 whooping cough cases have ...

Whooping cough, scientifically known as Bordetella pertussis, is a highly contagious respiratory disease. It is characterized by severe coughing spasms, where individuals may cough so intensely that ...

Despite a slowdown compared to the beginning of the year, the number of annual whooping cough cases in Arkansas is projected ...

California's cases of whooping cough are more than six times as high as last year, and in Los Angeles County, reports of the highly contagious disease have risen by nearly 220%, according to data from ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Two infants in Kentucky have died from whooping cough in the last six months. State health officials confirmed the deaths Friday and said neither the infants or their mothers ...

As of Dec. 6, the CDC logged 26,632 cases of whooping cough in 2025. The last time the U.S. saw so many cases was more than a decade ago in 2014.

Cases of whooping cough, or pertussis, in the United States are the highest they have been in a decade — and Wisconsin continues to see some of the worst numbers in the country. As of Dec. 14, the U.S ...

This year has seen record-high cases of whooping cough across the U.S., and California is no exception. As reported by the Los Angeles Times, the contagious illness also known as pertussis has been ...