Cases of whooping cough are on the rise in the US — and so are deaths, with most of 2025’s fatalities being children and ...

With the risk of whooping cough infections rising, it's a good time to make sure you're up to date on your Tdap booster, experts say. Whooping cough (pertussis) is a highly infectious respiratory ...

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 ...

The brutal respiratory infection has infected tens of thousands and killed at least 13 people in the U.S. in 2025 ...

Over the last few years, the U.S. has experienced a troubling resurgence of pertussis, also known as whooping cough.

A nationwide surge in pertussis cases has resulted in the deaths of infants in several states across the country this year, from Kentucky to Oregon. A UT Health San Antonio infectious diseases ...

It’s not just measles outbreaks that are on the rise in the United States: New cases of the respiratory infection pertussis — also known as whooping cough — are increasing as well. So far in 2025 ...

The poll revealed that up to 30% of Americans do not know whooping cough is also called pertussis, and just 43% recognized pertussis or whooping cough as one of the vaccines covered by the Tdap ...

For the second year in a row, the U.S. has surpassed 25,000 whooping cough cases — another sign of the risks of falling ...

The Kentucky Department for Public Health issued a warning Nov. 24 about the collision of rising national cases of pertussis with waning vaccination rates that led to three infant deaths in the ...