In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran ...

Callie Grace was born on Christmas Eve 2009 after Katie Van Tornhout and her husband tried for years for a baby.

Weekly cases of whooping cough have hit a record high in Japan. Whooping cough is an infectious bacterial disease ...

It’s easy to forget how deadly whooping cough, measles, rubella, and polio once were—but for families who lost loved ones, ...

It’s a sound no parent wants to hear—that relentless cough that just won’t go away. Now, health officials are warning of a ...

This year, more than a third of whooping cough cases have been among people 11 to 19 years old. For this reason, the C.D.C. recommends that children get a booster shot at 11 or 12 years old.

There's an outbreak of whooping cough in Iqaluit and Pond Inlet, Nunavut, according to the territory's chief public health officer.The Department of Health announced the outbreaks in a pair of news ...

Whooping cough is extremely contagious – in fact, it is up to ten times more contagious than the flu. If you’re immunised against whooping cough, you’re likely to have milder symptoms.

Whooping cough cases in Washington state increased sharply, with 2,261 cases in 2024 compared to 87 in 2023, coinciding with a decline in vaccination rates among young children from 73% in 2019 to ...

Whooping cough cases in Australia have been rising since 2024. Here's what's driving the surge and how to stay safe.

Whooping cough, while unpleasant for adults, can be devastating for a child under 1 year old. Babies have a less developed immune system and, for reasons scientists do not fully understand, ...

Last July, Kentucky health officials said whooping cough cases were on the rise across the state, with more than 540 cases reported in the Commonwealth last year.Whooping cough is a highly ...