There have been 6,600 pertussis cases reported in the US in 2025, almost four times the number at this point last year.

The disease can be especially dangerous to babies and young children, who may not cough at all but may struggle to breathe. About one in three babies with whooping cough are hospitalized.

Whooping cough, or pertussis, was once a leading cause of death for children in the U.S. and worldwide before the ...

Pregnant women urged to get vaccinated against infection, which is potentially life threatening in young babies ...

Last year saw a record number of whooping cough cases - with more than 530 confirmed. The Health Protection Surveillance ...

A doctor has spoken of seeing babies “struggling for breath “ after catching the whooping cough as cases of the life ...

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The child was known to have visited an Erie pediatric urgent-care center and a Millcreek Township childcare facility.

Dr Ciara Martin, paediatrician and the national clinical advisor for children and young people in the HSE said newborns can be particularly affected by whooping cough. “Babies with pertussis ...

As New Zealand continues to wrestle with a whooping cough (pertussis) epidemic, more babies are being protected thanks to a ...

The HSE South West is urging pregnant women in the county to vaccinate themselves against whooping cough, also known as ...