HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - Medical experts provided tips on how to protect your children from increasing cases of whooping cough in West Virginia. Dr. Michael Kilkenny, CEO and Health Officer of the ...

Callie Grace was born on Christmas Eve 2009 after Katie Van Tornhout and her husband tried for years for a baby. But when Callie turned a month old, she began to cough, after catching whooping cough. ...

Whoopingcough might sound like a disease from another era. But the illness, also called pertussis, is alive and well in the U.S. Known as a childhood illness, whooping cough is actually most common in ...

Cases of pertussis, a contagious respiratory infection more commonly known as whooping cough, are on the rise in Mississippi - reaching record highs for the past 15 years, health experts said. Reports ...

Nashville doctors are concerned about a nationwide surge in whooping cough, also known as pertussis. Cases in Davidson County have more than tripled this year compared to last year. Infant deaths from ...

As whooping cough cases in Kentucky continue to rise, the state's Department for Public Health is reporting a third pertussis-related infant death within the last year. The latest death was reported ...

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

A newly cleared point-of-care test will enable rapid identification of whooping cough, according to a press release from manufacturer Roche. The molecular test uses the cobas liat system and earned an ...

More than 3,500 cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, cases have been reported in Texas so far this year, already reaching a 11-year high even though two more highly infectious months are left in the ...

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