Whooping cough cases are more than double those seen at the same time last year, with 8,064 cases recorded nationwide so far this year.

The good news is that most cases of whooping cough are preventable with DTaP vaccines in childhood and Tdap shots at age 11 or 12 and during pregnancy. (Both are combination vaccines for diptheria, ...

Here's what to know about whooping cough amid the growing cases. The rise in pertussis infections has raised alarms for health experts who are already grappling with the ongoing outbreaks of ...

(WXYZ) — In today’s Health Alert, it’s not just measles on the rise - whooping cough cases have jumped more than 1,500% nationwide since 2021. Experts warn that ...

In 2021, when people were social distancing and in lockdown during the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were barely 2,000 reported cases of whooping cough. An Alarming Rise in First Few ...

Preliminary CDC data shows 8,485 whooping cough cases reported in 2025—twice as many as this time last year. Experts link the rise to declining childhood vaccination rates and growing anti ...

Whooping cough has been on the rise in the U.S. for years—and cases are continuing to soar in 2025. Meanwhile, fewer Americans are getting vaccinated against it. Here’s what to know about the ...

Whooping cough cases are rising, and doctors are bracing for yet another tough year. There have been 8,485 cases reported in 2025, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

LEADERS CONCERNED RIGHT NOW AS PERTUSSIS IS ON THE RISE HERE IN LOUISIANA ... COMMONLY KNOWN AS WHOOPING COUGH, WE’VE ALREADY SURPASSED THE NUMBER OF CASES WE HAD LAST YEAR.

Among the many contagious diseases circulating right now — RSV, walking pneumonia and norovirus among them — is one that you may not have heard of for a while, or perhaps had assumed was an ...