More than five times as many pertussis cases had been reported as of mid-October compared with the same time last year, ...

Erie County saw its largest pertussis outbreak since at least 2012 when 15 people tested positive in September for the vaccine-preventable bacterial illness commonly known as whooping cough. By ...

Researchers at UNSW Sydney and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have developed a new genomic test that can identify ...

Bay Area doctors are warning about a surge in whooping cough cases, with some counties experiencing their highest numbers in ...

Why is pertussis on the rise? Doctors said there are several possible explanations, including more testing for the disease and the possibility that the bacterium that causes pertussis has mutated.

This year could be a decade-high for whooping cough cases in Washington state, according to numbers by the state Department ...

Whooping cough cases nearly doubled in New Mexico in 2024, and accounts for 60 of the total cases nationwide, as of Oct. 26.

Used to analyse past outbreaks, the new method could be implemented to inform public health policy.Researchers at UNSW Sydney and the University of ...

The seasonal COVID-19 spike, combined with rising cases of seasonal flu and RSV, brings what has been called a “tripledemic.” ...

The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) says pneumonia is the biggest infectious killer of ...

The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) says pneumonia is the biggest infectious killer of ...

There is currently no vaccine available for walking pneumonia ... On Nov. 2, the CDC reported a more than five-fold increase ...