An infant under two months old has died from pertussis, also known as whooping cough, in Mississippi. Pertussis cases in the state have sharply increased, with 115 cases reported in 2025 compared to ...

It’s not just the flu that Americans need to worry about this fall season. In recent months, public health officials have ...

Louisiana’s whooping cough outbreak is now the worst in 35 years, after cases dramatically outpaced the previous record high over the summer and hospitalizations continued to rise among young infants.

Whooping cough can be extremely serious in babies and young children, causing vomiting, pneumonia, convulsions, apnea, brain damage or death. Infants can turn blue during coughing spells because of ...

(WJW) – Lorain County Public Health is monitoring an outbreak of pertussis in Lorain County, health officials confirmed on Friday. According to the notice, pertussis, more commonly called whooping ...

Whooping cough cases are on the rise nationally, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reporting 35,000 cases last year, a fivefold increase from the previous year. In Washoe ...

A baby has died from whooping cough in the UK amid warnings that vaccination rates among children and pregnant women have dropped to their lowest in 15 years. The infant’s mother had not been ...

A baby whose mother was not vaccinated against whooping cough while pregnant has died after contracting the infection, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said. The death, which occurred between ...