While vaccinations are high for Oklahoma, the state still sees high numbers, while the state health department looks for ways ...

Spokane County is facing a dual outbreak, with more influenza infections in the first two months of 2025 than entire seasons ...

Lancaster County has already recorded 29 cases of the highly contagious disease this month, the most since the season started ...

The U.S. confirmed at least a dozen deaths from whooping cough last year, according to preliminary figures released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That marks the most ...

Although in the post-Covid-19 era, pertussis incidences soared spectacularly, pertussis cases were already on the rise before ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – The Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department on Thursday announced that cases of whooping cough ...

The Mobile County Health Department has seen an increase in whooping cough cases this month especially in schools. Pertussis, ...

The disease, often referred to as pertussis, has affected 71 Oklahomans since the start of the year. Last year, Oklahoma finished the year with 469 total cases—just about 1% of the 35,493 ...

Young infants are at more risk because they don't get the first of six doses of the vaccine until they are two months old. So, before that, they are unprotected and more likely to die from whooping ...

Whooping cough is more formerly known as pertussis. “Any surge in pertussis activity is something we watch with concern because it can be so tough on infants,” said Clay Van Houten, infectious disease ...

Unfortunately, another vaccine-preventable illness is also sickening children and adults at an increased rate over previous ...